fcibrarp  of  Che  Cheolo^tccd  (£emfnary 

PRINCETON  •  NEW  JERSEY 

PRESENTED  BY 

John  Stuart  Conning,  D.D. 

DS  141  . M12  1905a 
McCartney,  Richard  Hayes. 
That  Jew! 


i 


THAT  JEW! 


THAT 


vn  ui  *  » /% 

.. 


; AL  sv 


“THOU  makest  us  a  Reproach  *  *  *  A  Scorn ,  A  Derision 

*  *  *  A  Byword  among  the  Gentiles .  ” 


7 

RICHARD  HAYES  McCARTNEY 


Author  of  “The  Lady  of  Nations",  “ The  Coming  of  The  King ",  “The 
Imperial ”,  “ The  Anti-Christ “Songs  in  the  Waiting ”,  “Prince 

of  Peace",  “ Gallipoli" ,  etc . 


NEW  YORK 

CHARLES  C;  COOK 

150  NASSAU  STREET 


Copyright,  1905,  by 

FRANCES  SWEETMAN  HAYES  McCARTNEY  MORSE 


TO  THE  TWO 

ELIZABETHS— 

The  Child  and  The  Maiden 

A  Bud — A  Blossom — but  so  many  fall. 

Chilled  by  harsh  wind  against  earth’s  garden  wall , 
Men  noticed  not — for  the  fierce,  leopard  pace 
Of  modern  life  soon  graveyard  mounds  efface ; 

The  sleepers,  mid  that  City  by  far  sea, 

Forgotten  then  by  all  the  world  but  me — 

And  where  their  couch  perchance  I  may  not  tell. 

But  The  King  saw  where  Bud  and  Blossom  fell— 
So  some  fine  morning,  when  He  comes  again 
To  banish  from  The  Earth  woe,  sin  and  pain — 

To  bring  back  Israel  to  their  ancient  place,’ 
Rending  the  veil — and  vanishing  disgrace ; 

That  selfsame  day — He  shall  remember  where 
The  Two  are  sleeping — mid  the  trumpet  blare — 
The  Bud  and  Blossom,  then  shall  hear  His  voice, 
Spring  up  in  Beauty  of  His  Royal  choice, 

All  gloriously  resplendent  in  His  grace ; 

Then,  They  (and  I)  shall  first  behold  His  face ! 
And  We  shall  come  in  Royal  splendor  set — 

Lo,  the  Pierced  Feet  once  more  on  Olivet! 

Kansas  City,  Mo.,  December,  1904. 


THAT  JEW! 


CHAPTER  I 

THE  PEOPLE  OF  THE  RESTLESS  FEET 

The  Jew — you  will  find  him  everywhere;  no  matter 
what  continent,  what  country  you  may  go  to,  you  will 
ever  find  the  tell-tale  face  of  the  Child  of  Abraham. 
Where  the  city,  or  town  of  any  size  in  the  civilized  world, 
where  you  cannot  see  above  some  store,  or  factory,  a 
name  that  strikes  you  at  once  as  the  name  of  a  Jew  ? — 
a  race,  some  representative  of  which  you  meet  in  almost 
every  street  of  the  cities  of  the  world.  They  are  indeed 
the  children  of  the  restless  feet.  They  seem  readily  to 
be  acclimated  in  every  land  under  the  sun,  but  never 
amalgamated,  never  lost,  never  losing  identity,  never 
absorbed  by  the  surrounding  people ;  no  matter  how  long 
they  live  in  any  country,  in  the  midst  of  any  people,  they 
are  still  Jews.  And  it  is  a  fact,  they  are  at  best  only 
tolerated,  we  may  add,  with  grim  jest,  by  the  freest  and 
most  enlightened  nations  of  the  world.  Fain  would  the 
rich  Jews  be  rid  of  their  race  taint — they  would  fain  be 
counted  American,  English,  French,  German,  Russian — 
yet  they  are,  notwithstanding  their  protests,  prayers,  be- 
seechings,  tears,  threats  and  promises — simply  Jews. 

In  France,  Germany,  Russia,  even  in  England  and 
America,  in  every  land,  in  every  nation,  no  matter  what 
the  tongue,  in  the  islands  of  the  sea,  whenever  the  Jew 
comes  to  a  Gentile’s  eye,  there  is,  oft  unconsciously, 


IO 


THAT  JEW! 


within  the  heart  a  certain  contemptuous  sneer,  unuttered 
perchance  by  the  lips  but  nestling  in  the  mind — “that 
Jew!” 

Surely  the  knowledge  of  Jewish  isolation  must  at  some 
time  or  other  have  been  brought  home  to  the  mind  of 
every  Gentile  man  and  woman  in  the  world.  It  is  a  glar¬ 
ing  fact,  that  one  should  not  put  aside,  and  banish  from 
one’s  thoughts  lightly,  as  a  singular  thing,  but  of  no  real 
importance,  and  yet  such  a  conclusion  as  “of  no  impor¬ 
tance”  is  fatal  in  some  measure  to  every  Gentile  of  the 
civilized  world.  This  Jew  Question  is  one  of  the  most 
vital  importance — for  on  it  hangs  the  most  momentous 
event,  which,  when  it  happens,  will  affect  the  earthly 
and  eternal  welfare  of  every  living  creature  on  the  face 
of  the  earth. 

The  Jew  Question  will  not  down,  and  cannot  be  put 
down,  neither  settled,  nor  put  out  of  sight,  either  by  the 
love  or  the  hate  of  the  combined  Gentile  nations. 

It  is  therefore  a  most  important  duty — I  say  most  em¬ 
phatically,  Duty — of  every  Gentile,  to  look  into,  to  pon¬ 
der  with  sincere  and  honest  consideration,  this,  of  all, 
the  most  far-reaching  and  vital  to  every  Gentile  this 
wide  world  over — this  Jew  Question. 

And  on  this  question  it  is  vain  to  turn  to  History, 
Philosophy,  Jurisprudence,  or  the  learning  of  the  past 
ages,  for  the  solution.  We  have  only  one  source  of  in¬ 
formation — perfectly  true  in  every  line,  without  a  fleck 
or  single  flaw  (except  perchance  some  stray  mistake  of 
the  Ancient  Copiest)  in  the  entire  volume.  If  one  turns 
to  this  volume  and  prayerfully  desires  information,  tak¬ 
ing  the  words  in  their  utmost  simplicity,  driving  from  the 
mind  any  spiritualizing,  he  will  find  his  soul  flooded  with 
a  light  from  the  eternal  throne,  as  to  the  unchanging  pur- 


THAT  JEW! 


ii 


poses  of  Jehovah  towards — this  Jew.  And  mingled  with 
the  Jew,  the  purpose  of  God  towards  the  Gentile,  and 
also  the  future  of  this  great  world.  The  Jew  Question 
has  been  the  puzzle  of  the  ages — a  source  of  vexation 
and  trouble  to  the  kings  and  emperors  of  the  world — 
they  have  flattered  and  murdered,  tolerated  and  despised ; 
human  ingenuity  has  been  racked  as  to  the  best  means 
to  get  rid  of  them,  to  work  them  ill  of  every  conceivable 
kind,  to  blot  them  from  the  earth,  but  all  to  no  purpose. 
They  laugh  and  mock  at  emperors,  kings,  warriors,  states¬ 
men,  and  all  in  authority — the  great  ones  that  would  slay 
have  passed  away — and  there,  yet  unconquered  and  un¬ 
vanquished  stands — this  despicable  Jew! 

In  this  question  there  is  a  trinity,  a  trinity  composed  of 
a  book ,  a  people  and  a  land,  the  three  inseparable ;  all 
linked  together,  as  it  were,  with  a  golden  chain  by  the 
hands  of  Jehovah — and  no  human  nor  devil’s  hand  can 
wrest  asunder  what  God  hath  joined  together  in  His 
eternal  purpose. 

The  book  is  God’s  revelation,  not  to  the  Jew  alone, 
but  to  all  humanity — but  it  is  only  through  the  Jew,  that 
humanity  has  been,  and  will  be,  blest. 

The  people,  a  peculiar,  separated  people,  that  has  been, 
and  will  be,  the  source  of  every  blessing  to  every  creature 
under  heaven. 

The  land  was  theirs,  and  will  yet  be  theirs  throughout 
all  the  blessed  ages  to  come. 

Of  this  people  it  was  written  3393  years  ago :  “I  will 
scatter  you  among  the  nations.  I  will  send  a  faintness 
into  their  hearts  in  the  lands  of  their  enemies;  and  the 
sound  of  a  shaken  leaf  shall  chase  them;  and  they  shall 
flee,  as  fleeing  from  a  sword;  and  they  shall  fall  when 
none  pursueth.  And  they  shall  fall  one  upon  another, 


12 


THAT  JEW! 


as  it  were  before  a  sword  when  none  pursueth ;  and  ye 
shall  have  no  power  to  stand  before  your  enemies.” 

It  was  written  of  them  2640  years  ago : 

“To  tread  them  down  like  the  mire  of  the  streets /” 

Are  not  the  above  words  true  of  the  eastern  European 
Jews  to-day? 

Of  this  land  it  was  written  3393  years  ago: 

“I  will  make  your  cities  waste,  and  bring  your  sanc¬ 
tuaries  unto  desolation.  And  I  will  bring  the  land  unto 
desolation ;  and  your  enemies  which  dwell  therein  shall 
be  astonished  at  it.  Your  land  shall  be  desolate  and 
your  cities  waste.  Then  shall  the  land  enjoy  her  Sab¬ 
baths,  as  long  as  it  lieth  desolate,  and  ye  be  in  your  ene¬ 
mies’  land ;  even  then  shall  the  land  rest,  and  enjoy  her 
Sabbaths.  As  long  as  it  lieth  desolate  it  shall  rest ;  be¬ 
cause  it  did  not  rest  in  your  Sabbaths,  when  ye  dwelt 
upon  it.” 

Who  will  dispute  the  fact  that  the  land  has  been  a 
most  unfruitful  one  for  some  eighteen  centuries? 

Will  the  reader  note  that  these  words  were  spoken 
against  the  people  and  the  land  some  forty  years  before 
the  people  entered  the  land  under  Joshua — to  possess 
the  land. 

And  3393  years  ago  Jehovah  said  also  of  the  people: 

“Then  will  I  remember  my  covenant  with  Jacob,  and 
also  my  covenant  with  Isaac,  and  also  my  covenant  with 
Abraham  will  I  remember!” 

And  3393  years  ago  Jehovah  said : 

“And  I  will  remember  the  land !” 

The  Lord  is  not  slack  concerning  His  promise,  as 
some  men  count  slackness. 


THAT  JEW! 


i3 


CHAPTER  II 

AS  TO  THE  LAND 

When  one  has  made  up  his  mind  (the  owner  being 
willing)  to  purchase  a  certain  lot  of  land,  the  first  request 
that  he  makes  is: 

“Have  you  a  perfect  title?  Please  have  the  abstract 
of  the  property  brought  down  to  date,  and  I  shall  have 
my  lawyer  examine;  if  your  title  be  without  flaw,  I  will 
immediately  pay  you.” 

Every  wise  would-be  purchaser  of  a  home,  or  an  invest¬ 
ment,  will  have  the  most  competent  lawyer  examine  the 
title  before  he  pays  for  the  property.  Now  let  us  see 
why  this  Jew  claims  the  land  of  Canaan  for  his  own. 
How  was  the  title  first  invested  in  him?  And  if  that 
title  is  without  flaw,  though  he  is  a  long  time  without 
possession  (if  he  has  not  sold  it,  and  he  never  has  as 
far  as  mortal  man’s  records  go),  then  he  has  a  perfect 
right  to  take  possession  of  the  land.  The  Jew  never 
willingly  gave  up  the  land ;  he  was  always  forcibly  driven 
from  his  homestead. 

The  creator  of  any  property  is  the  absolute  owner.  As 
Jehovah  created  the  world  in  ages  long  past,  and  six 
thousand  years  ago  formed  it,  and  shaped  it  to  His  will, 
He  had  a  perfect  right  to  give  the  land  He  calls  “Holy” 
to  whomsoever  His  sovereign  love  desired.  The  Jews 
claim  the  land  because  Jehovah  was  the  grantor  to  their 
Father  Abraham. 

Let  us  look  up  the  records:  In  the  many  recorded 


14 


THAT  JEW! 


interviews  of  Jehovah  with  Abraham  we  find  mention 
of  the  land  in  six,  written  as  follows : 

1st  Interview :  “Get  thee  *  *  *  to  a  land  that  I  will 
show  thee.” 

2d  Interview :  “Unto  thy  seed  will  I  give  this  land.” 

3d  Interview  :  “Lift  up  now  thine  eyes,  and  look  from 
the  place  where  thou  art  northward,  and  southward,  and 
eastward,  and  westward.  For  all  the  land  which  thou 
seest,  to  thee  will  I  give  it,  and  to  thy  seed  forever. 
Arise,  walk  through  the  land  in  the  length  of  it  and  in 
the  breadth  of  it ;  for  I  will  give  it  unto  thee.” 

4th  Interview :  “I  am  The  Lord  that  brought  thee  out 
of  Ur  of  the  Chaldees  to  give  thee  this  land  to  inherit  it.” 

5th  Interview:  “In  the  same  day  The  Lord  made  a 
covenant  with  Abraham,  saying:  ‘Unto  thy  seed  have  I 
given  this  land,  from  the  river  of  Egypt  unto  the  great 
river,  the  river  Euphrates:  The  Kenites,  and  the  Keniz- 
zites,  and  the  Kadmonites,  and  the  Hittites,  and  the 
Perizzites,  and  the  Rephaims,  and  the  Amorites,  and  the 
Canaanites,  and  the  Girgashites,  and  the  Jebusites.’  ” 

6th  Interview :  “And  I  will  give  unto  thee,  and  to  thy 
seed  after  thee,  the  land  wherein  thou  art  a  stranger, 
all  the  land  of  Canaan,  for  an  Everlasting  Possession.” 

The  reader  of  these  records  must  of  necessity  observe 
one  very  particular  feature,  namely,  the  land  was  given 
to  Abraham  without  a  single,  solitary  condition;  the  metes 
and  bounds  were  laid  down  carefully,  and  absolutely  given 
without  consideration,  as  an  everlasting  possession.  The 
children  of  Israel  then  have  a  perfectly  clear  title  to  the 
land ;  it  is  absolutely  theirs  without  the  shadow  of  a  flaw. 

They  never  sold  it ;  they  were  driven  forcibly  from  the 
land ;  they  have  a  right  to  possess  it  whenever  they  enter 
into  its  bounds. 


THAT  JEW! 


15 


And  not  only  to  Abraham,  but  also  to  his  son  Isaac, 
Jehovah  in  His  first  recorded  interview  with  the  latter, 
said,  as  follows: 

“Go  not  down  unto  Egypt ;  dwell  in  the  land  which  I 
shall  tell  thee  of ;  sojourn  in  this  land,  and  I  will  be  with 
thee,  and  will  bless  thee;  for  unto  thee,  and  unto  thy 
seed,  I  will  give  all  these  countries;  and  I  will  perform 
the  oath  which  I  sware  unto  Abraham,  thy  father;  and 
I  will  make  thy  seed  to  multiply  as  the  stars  of  heaven, 
and  will  give  unto  thy  seed  all  these  countries;  and  in 
thy  seed  shall  all  the  nations  of  the  earth  be  blessed.  Be¬ 
cause  that  Abraham  obeyed  my  voice,  and  kept  my  charge, 
my  commandments,  my  statutes,  and  my  laws.  ’ 

And  among  the  few  recorded  interviews  between 
Jehovah  and  Jacob,  we  read:  “I  am  The  Lord  God  of 
Abraham,  thy  father,  and  the  God  of  Isaac.  The  land 
wherein  thou  best,  to  thee  will  I  give  it,  and  to  thy  seed ; 
and  thy  seed  shall  be  as  the  dust  of  the  earth,  and 
thou  shalt  spread  abroad  to  the  west,  and  to  the  east, 
and  to  the  north,  and  to  the  south;  and  in  thee  and 
in  thy  seed  shall  all  the  families  of  the  earth  be 

blessed.” 

“And  God  said  unto  him:  Thy  name  is  Jacob;  thy 
name  shall  not  be  called  any  more  Jacob,  but  Israel  shall 
be  thy  name ;  and  he  called  his  name  Israel.  And  God 
said  unto  him:  I  am  God  Almighty.  Be  fruitful  and 
multiply ;  a  nation  and  a  company  of  nations  shall  be  of 
thee,  and  kings  shall  come  out  of  thy  loins ;  and  the  land 
which  I  gave  Abraham  and  Isaac,  to  thee  I  will  give  it, 
and  to  thy  seed  after  thee  will  I  give  the  land.” 

According  to  God’s  promise,  the  children  of  Israel  were 
given  part  of  the  land ;  but  never  once  did  they,  though 
coming  very  near  to  it  in  the  reign  of  King  Solomon, 


i6 


THAT  JEW! 


possess  the  limits  of  the  tract  of  land  granted  by  God 
to  Abraham  in  his  fifth  recorded  interview. 

There  has  been  a  witty  sneer — that  Jehovah  of  the 
Jews  must  have  been  a  very  little  God  when  he  gave  them 
such  a  small  tract  of  land.  But  the  wit’s  sneers  were 
made  in  profound  ignorance,  for  the  dimensions  of  the 
land  as  originally  given,  and  yet  to  be  occupied  by  Israel 
in  the  near  future,  form  indeed  an  imperial  stretch  of 
country. 

Again,  it  has  been  said,  that  Israel  by  their  wickedness 
made  null  and  void  all  the  promises  of  God.  What  pro¬ 
found  stupidity  is  this;  what  a  misconception  of  the 
mind  of  the  grantor?  The  land  was  given  to  Abraham 
and  his  seed  without  a  condition.  Once  given,  the  grantor 
could  not  afterwards  make  conditions  that  the  inheritors 
were  bound  to  respect.  The  land  was  given  absolutely 
from  Jehovah  to  Abraham  and  his  seed  for  an  ever¬ 
lasting  possession — (talking  with  the  utmost  reverence) 
— God  could  not  four  hundred  years  afterward  say,  “Cer¬ 
tain  conditions  must  be  observed  or  the  land  shall  cease 
to  be  yours.”  Binding  conditions  must  be  stated  before, 
not  after  the  warranty  deed  is  given.  Jehovah  has  a 
perfect  right  to  say  what  children  of  Abraham  shall 
occupy  the  land,  but  He  does  not  for  one  instant  question 
the  right  and  title  of  a  son  of  Abraham  to  the  land. 

His  Holy  Prophets  give  no  uncertain  sound  on  this 
point.  Hundreds  of  passages  state,  in  unmistakably  sim¬ 
ple  language,  that  though  Israel  has  sinned  and  polluted 
His  land,  yet  it  is  His  loving  intention  to  purify  His 
land,  to  bring  them  back  from  the  nations  amid  whom 
He  has  scattered  them,  that  they  shall  dwell  in  the  land, 
theirs  for  an  everlasting  possession,  and  they  shall  not 
again  lose,  nor  be  driven  from  the  land. 


THAT  JEW! 


17 


The  trouble  with  the  children  of  Israel  was,  they  were 
entirely  too  ready  to  make  promises.  After  coming  out 
of  Egypt  they  said  to  Jehovah  at  Sinai,  that  they  would 
obey  His  commandments  and  keep  His  laws.  Quite  for¬ 
getting  they  were  poor,  sinful  humanity,  who  could  not 
keep  His  commandments.  Then  Jehovah  promised  that 
if  they  would  obey  Him,  He  would  bless  them  and  make 
of  them  a  great  nation ;  that  if  they  did  not  obey  Him,  He 
would  most  certainly  turn  against  them  and  drive  them 
from  their  land.  But  never  for  one  instant  did  Jehovah 
entertain  the  thought  of  breaking  His  oath  with  Abra¬ 
ham.  He  may  drive  a  certain  generation  from  His  land 
but  He  never  had  one  wish,  desire,  or  thought,  of  taking 
away  the  land  for  good  from  Abraham’s  seed, 


i8 


THAT  JEW! 


CHAPTER  III 

god’s  purposes  as  regards  the  people 

It  is  interesting  to  note  the  sovereign  and  unchange¬ 
able  love  which  Jehovah  had,  has,  and  will  have,  towards 
—the  Despicable  Jew!  Let  us  examine  into  its  source 
and  begin  at  the  beginning.  Let  us  look  into  the  prom¬ 
ises  of  God  to  Abraham.  The  recorded  interviews  be¬ 
tween  Jehovah  and  His  friend  must  be  our  only  reliable 
source  of  information. 

The  first  interview :  “Get  thee  out  of  thy  country,  and 
from  thy  kindred,  and  from  thy  father  s  house,  unto  a 
land  that  I  will  shew  thee.  And  I  will  make  of  thee  a 
great  nation,  and  I  will  bless  thee,  and  make  thy  name 
great ;  and  thou  shalt  be  a  blessing ;  and  I  will  bless  them 
that  bless  thee,  and  curse  him  that  curseth  thee ;  and  in 
thee  shall  all  the  families  of  the  earth  be  blessed.” 

And  Abram  went  out,  not  knowing  whither  he  went. 

The  third  interview  enlarges  the  blessing,  as  follows : 

“And  I  will  make  thy  seed  as  the  dust  of  the  earth ; 
so  that  if  a  man  can  number  the  dust  of  the  earth,  then 

shall  thy  seed  also  be  numbered.” 

In  the  fourth  interview,  The  Lord  brought  him  forth 
from  the  tent,  and  as  Abram  stood  there,  at  night, 

Jehovah  said: 

“Look  now  towards  heaven  and  tell  the  stars  if  thou 
be  able  to  number  them — so  shall  thy  seed  be. 

In  the  fifth  interview,  Abram  had  taken  an  heifer,  a 
she  goat,  and  a  ram,  and  slain  them,  dividing  them  in 


THAT  JEW! 


19 


twain — separating  the  pieces,  leaving  a  passageway  be¬ 
tween.  Also  slaying  a  turtle  dove  and  a  young  pigeon, 
but  dividing  them  not,  he  placed  the  one  over  against 
the  other. 

Now  all  this  was  in  accordance  with  a  much  practiced 
oriental  custom  of  those  days.  When  two  persons  de¬ 
sired  to  make  a  covenant  they  slew  and  divided  a  heifer, 
a  goat  and  a  ram.  The  halves  were  placed  opposite  each 
other,  leaving  a  passageway  between.  Then  each  one  of 
the  two  making  the  agreement  passed  between  those 
divided  carcasses,  thus  taking  upon  himself  an  oath  to 
keep  the  covenant. 

But  in  this  case  we  read:  “When  the  fowls  came  down 
upon  the  carcasses,  Abram  drove  them  away.  And  when 
the  sun  was  going  down,  a  deep  sleep  fell  upon  Abram ; 
and  lo,  an  horror  of  great  darkness  fell  upon  him.”  In 
this  condition  Abram  saw  Jehovah  pass  between  the 
slain  animals,  and  thus  Jehovah  took  upon  Himself 
alone  the  whole  responsibility  of  the  covenant.  To  use 
a  common  expression,  “It  was  altogether  a  one-sided 
affair ;  one  party  the  actor,  the  other  only  a  spectator.” 

As  Jehovah  walked  between  the  carcasses,  He  made 
a  covenant  with  Abram.  Notice,  the  words  are  all  from 
Jehovah’s  lips.  He  makes  the  promises,  and  the  prom¬ 
ises  are  entirely  unconditional.  He  demands  nothing  in 
return — the  sovereign  gives,  and  asks  nothing  at  the 
hands  of  the  subject. 

In  the  sixth  interview :  “I  am  the  Almighty  God. 
Walk  before  Me,  and  be  thou  perfect,  and  I  will  make 
My  covenant  between  Me  and  thee,  and  will  multiply  thee 
exceedingly.  As  for  Me,  behold  My  covenant  is  with 
thee,  and  thou  shalt  be  a  father  of  many  nations.  Neither 
shall  thy  name  any  more  be  called  Abram,  but  thy 


20 


THAT  JEW! 


name  shall  be  called  Abraham ;  for  a  father  of  many 
nations  have  I  made  thee.  And  I  will  make  thee  exceed¬ 
ingly  fruitful,  and  I  will  make  nations  of  thee,  and  kings 
shall  come  out  of  thee.  And  I  will  establish  My  cove¬ 
nant,  to  be  a  God  unto  thee,  and  to  thy  seed  after  thee. 
And  I  zvill  give  unto  thee,  and  to  thy  seed  after  thee,  the 
land  wherein  thou  art  a  stranger,  all  the  land  of  Canaan, 
for  an  everlasting  possession:  and  I  will  be  their  God. 
Sarah,  thy  wife,  shall  bear  thee  a  son  indeed;  and  thou 
shalt  call  his  name  Isaac.  And  I  will  establish  my  cove¬ 
nant  with  him  for  an  everlasting  covenant,  and  with  his 
seed  after  him.” 

In  the  tenth  and  last  recorded  interview:  “By  myself 
have  I  sworn,  saith  The  Lord,  that  in  blessing  I  will 
bless  thee,  and  in  multiplying  I  will  multiply  thy  seed  as 
the  stars  of  the  heaven,  and  as  the  sand  which  is  upon 
the  seashore :  and  thy  seed  shall  possess  the  gate  of  his 
enemies.  And  in  thy  seed  shall  all  the  nations  of  the 
earth  be  blessed.” 

Is  it  not  rather  strange  that  as  a  body  the  entire  Chris¬ 
tian  Church  is  very  glib  in  repeating  as  a  most  precious 
promise,  a  sentence  of. eleven  words,  repeated  twice  only 
(in  the  first  and  last  interviews),  as  if  that  alone  were 
the  only  promise  of  any  value  in  the  utterances  of  God 
to  Abraham.  The  precious  words :  “In  thee  shall  all 
the  families  of  the  earth  be  blest  ”  treasured,  and  repeated 
o’er  and  o’er  hundreds  of  times  in  each  lifetime,  while  all 
the  other  promises  of  God  to  Abraham  are  looked  on  as 
a  dead  letter.  This  has  been  a  fatal  mistake  on  the 
church’s  part;  with  a  wilful  blindness  they  have  robbed 
Israel  of  all  their  precious  promises,  and  by  so  doing 
have  not  enriched  themselves.  Nay,  this  ignoring  of 
God’s  purposes  towards  Israel  has  proved  a  pitfall  to 


THAT  JEW 


21 


them ;  has  made  them  weak  where  they  should  be 
strong;  has  filled  the  heart  with  wild  hopes  and  foolish 
desires,  making  them  frantic  in  the  chase  of  a  phantom; 
made  them  so  foolish  as  to  believe  that  the  Gentiles  would 
convert  the  world  to  Christ  before  Christ  came  back, 
and  before  the  Jews  were  converted  as  a  nation.  They 
despised  the  real  olive  tree ;  they,  the  engrafted  branches, 
alone  were  the  real  branches.  And  now,  because  their 
foolish  plans  for  the  hasty  conversion  of  the  world  fail, 
they  must  need  get  a  newer  Gospel,  not  the  Gospel  of  Re¬ 
demption  from  sin  by  the  blood  of  Christ,  but  one  from 
their  darkened  understandings — a  lie,  called  '‘The  Father¬ 
hood  of  God !”  “The  Brotherhood  of  Man !”  The 
civilization  born  from  Christianity  is  to  be  the  Saviour 
of  Mankind. 

In  the  first  of  the  two  interviews  recorded — between 
Jehovah  and  Isaac — “Sojourn  in  this  land  and  I  will  be 
with  thee,  and  will  bless  thee ;  for  unto  thee,  and  unto 
thy  seed,  I  will  give  all  these  countries,  and  I  will  per¬ 
form  the  oath  which  I  sware  unto  Abraham,  thy  father ; 
and  I  will  make  thy  seed  to  multiply  as  the  stars  of 
heaven  and  will  give  unto  thy  seed  all  these  countries ; 
and  in  thy  seed  shall  all  the  families  of  the  earth  be 
blessed.” 

In  the  first  interview  with  Jacob,  Jehovah  said:  “I 
am  the  Lord  God  of  Abraham,  thy  father,  and  the  God 
of  Isaac:  thy  seed  shall  be  as  the  dust  of  the  earth,  and 
thou  shalt  spread  abroad ;  and  in  thee  and  in  thy  seed 
shall  all  the  families  of  the  earth  be  blessed.” 

In  the  fourth  interview :  “And  God  said  unto  him, 
thy  name  is  Jacob ;  thy  name  shall  not  be  called  any 
more  Jacob,  but  Israel  shall  be  thy  name ;  I  am  God 
Almighty:  be  fruitful  and  multiply;  a  nation  and  a 


22 


THAT  JEW! 


company  of  nations  shall  be  of  thee,  and  kings  shall  come 
out  of  thy  loins.” 

When  Israel  came  out  of  Egypt — when  they  had  not 
yet  passed  over  Jordan — when  but  a  small  portion  of  the 
land  was  conquered,  we  read  the  following  words,  sound¬ 
ing  in  our  ears  as  if  an  historical  record  of  the  Jews  for 
the  last  1800  years,  partly  true  to-day  in  Russia,  in 
Roumania — every  daily  paper  recording  the  fulfillment  of 
words  uttered  3400  years  ago.  And  yet  in  face  of  this, 
men  calling  themselves  Christian  ministers,  of  every  de¬ 
nomination — Baptists,  Presbyterians,  Methodists,  Episco¬ 
palians — all  would  fain  drive  inspiration  from  the  Old 
Testament  utterances.  Surely  we  are  nigh  unto  the  last 
fell  apostacy. 

“And  The  Lord  said  unto  Moses,  behold  thou  shalt 
sleep  with  thy  fathers ;  and  this  people  will  rise  up,  and 
go  awhoring  after  the  gods  of  the  strangers  of  the  land, 
whither  they  go  to  be  among  them,  and  will  forsake  Me, 
and  break  My  covenant  which  I  have  made  with  them. 
Then  mine  anger  shall  be  kindled  against  them  in  that 
day,  and  I  will  forsake  them,  and  I  will  hide  My  face 
from  them,  and  they  shall  be  devoured,  and  many  evils 
and  troubles  shall  befall  them.” 

In  Moses’  address  to  the  children  of  Israel  we  read : 
“And  thou  shalt  become  an  astonishment,  a  proverb  and 
a  by-word,  among  all  nations  whither  The  Lord  shall 
lead  thee.  And  The  Lord  shall  scatter  thee  among  all 
people,  and  from  one  end  of  the  earth  even  unto  the 
other.  And  among  these  nations  shalt  thou  find  no  ease, 
neither  shall  the  sole  of  thy  feet  rest;  but  The  Lord 
shall  give  thee  there  a  trembling  heart,  and  failing  of 
eyes,  and  sorrow  of  mind;  and  thy  life  shall  hang  in 
doubt  before  thee;  and  thou  shalt  fear  day  and  night,  and 


THAT  JEW! 


23 


shalt  have  no  assurance  of  thy  life.  In  the  morning  thou 
shalt  say,  ‘Would  God  it  were  even,’  and  at  even  thou 
shalt  say,  ‘Would  God  it  were  morning  ;  for  the  fear  of 
thine  heart  wherewith  thou  shalt  fear,  and  for  the  sight 
of  thine  eyes,  which  thou  shalt  see.” 

Yet  how  gracious  are  the  words  spoken  immediately 

after : 

“And  it  shall  come  to  pass  when  all  these  things  are 
come  upon  thee  *  *  *  and  thou  shalt  call  them  to  mind 
among  the  nations,  whither  The  Lord  Thy  God  hath 
driven  thee,  and  shalt  return  unto  The  Lord  Thy  God 
and  shalt  obey  His  voice  according  to  all  that  I  com¬ 
manded  thee  this  day,  thou  and  thy  children  with  all 
thy  heart,  and  with  all  thy  soul ;  that  then  The  Lord  Thy 
God  will  turn  thy  captivity,  and  have  compassion  upon 
thee,  and  will  return  and  gather  thee  from  all  the  nations 
whither  The  Lord  Thy  God  has  scattered  thee.  If  any 
of  thine  be  driven  out  unto  the  outmost  parts  of  heaven, 
from  thence  will  The  Lord  Thy  God  gather  thee,  and 
from  thence  will  He  fetch  thee.  And  The  Lord  Thy 
God  will  bring  thee  into  the  land  which  thy  fathers  pos¬ 
sessed,  and  thou  shalt  possess  it:  and  He  will  do  thee 
good  and  multiply  thee  above  thy  fathers.” 

Now  here  for  over  1800  years  stands  God’s  promise 
to  Israel,  that  if  they  would  turn  to  Him  with  heart  and 
soul,  He  stands  ever  waiting  for  their  return — ever 
ready,  eager,  and  willing  to  be  gracious  and  bless  them. 
But  it  has  stood  on  the  book  an  unfulfilled  blessing,  for 
their  hearts  have  departed  from  The  Living  God.  It  is 
a  wonderful  thought,  that  Jehovah  has  stood,  century 
after  century,  ready  at  any  moment  to  rescue  them  from 
the  hands  of  their  enemies,  ready  at  any  moment  to  bless 
them,  and  they  with  this  blessed  promise  in  their  hands, 


THAT  JEW! 


24 

with  the  volume  ever  opened  at  this  promise,  would  not 
heed,  nor  understand,  so  that  they  themselves  have  been 
the  cause  of  all  their  misery.  The  blessing  was  ever 
ready,  yet  they  in  wilful  blindness  have  bent  their  backs 
to  their  enemies  century  after  century — in  blood,  in  tears, 
in  lamentations,  in  woe. 

And  God,  knowing  well  the  human  heart,  knowing 
well  they  would  not  accept  the  conditions,  knowing  well 
if  they  were  ever  saved  as  a  nation  it  must  be  a  work 
of  grace — and  of  grace  alone — spoke  therefore  even 
before  they  were  taken  from  the  land  to  Babylon  by  His 
Holy  Prophets  and  declared  that  His  own  arm  would 
bring  salvation.  That  He  would  save  them  for  His  own 
name’s  sake,  and  for  the  oath  which  He  had  sworn  to 
Abraham:  that  His  grace,  mercy  and  peace  should  be 
entirely  unconditional.  They  were  to  be  recipients  of 
His  love — His  gifts  would  be  bestowed  by  their  King 
in  sovereign  grace. 

“For  behold  in  those  days  and  in  that  time  when  I 
shall  bring  again  the  captivity  of  Judah  and  Jerusalem  I 
will  also  gather  all  nations  and  will  bring  them  down  into 
the  valley  of  Jehoshaphat,  and  I  will  plead  with  them 
there  for  My  people,  and  for  My  heritage  Israel,  whom 
they  have  scattered  among  the  nations  and  parted  My 
land.  The  Lord  shall  roar  out  of  Zion  and  utter  His 
voice  from  Jerusalem,  and  the  heavens  and  the  earth 
shall  shake;  but  The  Lord  will  be  the  hope  of  His  peo¬ 
ple  and  the  strength  of  the  children  of  Israel.  *  *  * 
Judah  shall  dwell  forever,  and  Jerusalem  from  genera¬ 
tion  to  generation.  For  lo,  I  will  command,  and  I  will 
sift  the  house  of  Israel  among  all  nations  like  as  corn 
sifted  in  a  sieve,  yet  shall  not  the  least  grain  fall  upon 
the  earth;  and  I  will  bring  again  the  captivity  of  my 


THAT  JEW! 


25 


people  Israel  and  I  will  plant  them  upon  their  land,  and 
they  shall  no  more  be  pulled  up  out  of  their  land  which 
I  have  given  them,  saith  The  Lord  Thy  God. 

O  Israel,  thou  hast  destroyed  thyself ;  but  in  Me  is 
thine  help.  I  will  heal  their  backsliding.  I  will  love  them 
freely,  for  mine  anger  is  turned  away  from  him.  I  will 
be  as  the  dew  unto  Israel ;  he  shall  grow  as  the  lily  and 
cast  forth  his  roots  as  Lebanon.  His  branches  shall 
spread,  and  his  beauty  shall  be  as  the  olive  tree  and  his 
smell  as  Lebanon. 

But  upon  Mount  Zion  shall  be  deliverance,  and  there 
shall  be  holiness;  and  the  house  of  Jacob  shall  possess 
their  possessions. 

I  will  surely  assemble,  O  Jacob,  all  of  thee;  I  will 
surely  gather  the  remnant  of  Israel ;  I  will  put  them  to¬ 
gether  as  the  flock  in  the  midst  of  the  fold;  they  shall 
make  great  noise  by  reason  of  the  multitude  of  men. 
And  their  King  shall  pass  before  them,  and  The  Lord 
on  the  head  of  them.  And  thou,  O  tower  of  the  flock, 
the  stronghold  of  the  daughter  of  Zion,  unto  thee  shall 
it  come,  even  the  first  dominion.  The  kingdom  shall 
come  to  the  daughter  of  Jerusalem.  In  that  day,  saith 
The  Lord,  will  I  assemble  her  that  halteth,  and  I  will 
gather  her  that  is  driven  out,  and  her  that  I  have  afflicted ; 
and  I  will  make  her  that  halted  a  remnant,  and  her  that 
was  cast  off  a  strong  nation;  and  The  Lord  shall  reign 
over  them  in  Mount  Zion  from  henceforth,  even  for  ever. 
And  the  remnant  of  Jacob  shall  be  in  the  midst  of  many 
people  as  a  dew  from  The  Lord,  as  the  shower  upon  the 
grass,  that  tarrieth  not  for  man,  nor  waiteth  for  the  sons 
of  men.  Who  is  a  God  like  unto  Thee,  that  pardoneth 
iniquity  and  passeth  by  the  transgression  of  the  remnant 
of  this  heritage?  He  retaineth  not  His  anger  forever 


26 


THAT  JEW! 


because  He  delighteth  in  mercy  *  *  *  Will  cast  all  thefr 
sins  unto  the  depths  of  the  sea. 

Sing,  O  daughter  of  Zion ;  shout,  O  Israel ;  be  glad 
and  rejoice  with  all  thy  heart,  O  daughter  of  Jerusalem; 
the  King  of  Israel,  even  The  Lord,  is  in  the  midst  of 
thee;  thou  shalt  not  see  evil  any  more.  The  Lord  Thy 
God  in  the  midst  of  thee  is  mighty;  He  will  save.  He 
will  rejoice  over  thee  with  joy;  He  will  rest  in  His  love; 
He  will  joy  over  thee  with  singing. 

I  will  turn  my  hand  upon  thee  and  purely  purge  away 
thy  dross,  and  take  away  thy  sin  *  *  *  thou  shalt  be 
called  The  City  of  Righteousness,  the  Faithful  City.  Zion 
shall  be  redeemed  with  judgment.  And  many  people 
shall  say,  Come  ye  and  let  us  go  up  to  the  mountain  of 
The  Lord,  to  the  house  of  The  God  of  Jacob;  for  out 
of  Zion  shall  go  forth  the  law,  and  the  word  of  The  Lord 
from  Jerusalem.  He  that  is  left  in  Zion,  and  he  that 
remaineth  in  Jerusalem,  shall  be  called  holy.  When  The 
Lord  shall  have  washed  away  the  filth  of  the  daughter  of 
Zion,  and  shall  have  purged  the  blood  of  Jerusalem  from 
the  midst  thereof  by  the  spirit  of  judgment,  and  by  the 
spirit  of  burning,  and  The  Lord  will  create  upon  every 
dwelling  place  of  Mount  Zion,  and  upon  her  assemblies 
a  cloud  and  smoke  by  day,  and  the  shining  of  a  flaming 
fire  by  night ;  for  upon  all  the  glory  shall  be  a  defense. 
And  there  shall  be  a  tabernacle  for  a  shadow  in  the  day¬ 
time  from  the  heat,  and  for  a  place  of  refuge,  and  for 
a  covert  from  storm  and  from  rain.  Of  the  increase  of 
His  government  and  peace  there  shall  be  no  end  upon 
the  throne  of  David  and  upon  His  Kingdom,  to  order  it, 
and  to  establish  it  with  judgment  and  with  justice  from 
henceforth,  even  for  ever — the  zeal  of  The  Lord  of 
Hosts  will  perform  this. 


THAT  JEW ! 


27 


Fear  not,  for  I  am  with  thee.  I  will  bring  thy  seed 
from  the  east,  and  gather  thee  from  the  west.  I  will  say 
to  the  north,  give  up ;  and  to  the  south,  keep  not  back. 
I  even  I,  am  The  Lord.  And  besides  me  there  is  no 
Saviour.  I  am  the  Lord,  Your  Holy  One,  the  Cre¬ 
ator  of  Israel,  Your  King.  This  people  have  I  formed 
for  Myself  :  they  shall  show  forth  My  praise.  But  thou 
hast  not  called  upon  Me,  O  Jacob,  but  thou  hast  been 
weary  of  Me.  O  Israel,  I,  even  I,  am  He  that  blotteth 
out  thy  transgressions  for  My  Own  name’s  sake,  and 
will  not  remember  thy  sins.  I  will  pour  My  spirit  upon 
thy  seed,  and  My  blessing  upon  thy  offspring;  and  they 
shall  spring  up  as  among  the  grass,  as  willows  by  the 
water  courses.  Fear  ye  not,  neither  be  afraid,  ye  are 
even  My  witnesses.  I  have  formed  thee ;  thou  art  my 
servant.  O  Israel,  thou  shalt  not  be  forgotten  of  Me. 
I  have  blotted  out,  as  a  thick  cloud,  thy  transgressions, 
and  as  a  cloud,  thy  sins ;  return  unto  Me  ;  for  I  have 
redeemed  thee.  Sing,  O  ye  heavens,  for  The  Lord  hath 
done  it.  Shout,  ye  lower  parts  of  the  earth.  Break  forth 
into  singing,  ye  mountains,  O  forest,  and  every  tree 
therein;  for  The  Lord  hath  redeemed  Jacob,  and  glori¬ 
fied  LIimself  in  Israel.  Israel  shall  be  saved  in  The 
Lord  with  an  everlasting  salvation.  Ye  shall  not  be 
ashamed  nor  confounded  world  without  end.  In  The 
Lord  shall  all  the  seed  of  Israel  be  justified  and  shall 
glory.  And  therefore  will  The  Lord  wait,  that  He  may 
be  gracious  unto  you ;  and  therefore  will  He  be  exalted 
that  He  may  have  mercy  upon  you;  for  The  Lord  is  a 
God  of  judgment ;  blessed  are  all  they  that  wait  for  LIim. 
For  the  people  shall  dwell  in  Zion  at  Jerusalem;  thou 
shalt  weep  no  more.  He  will  be  very  gracious  unto  thee 
at  the  voice  of  thy  cry.  When  He  shall  hear  it,  He  will 


28 


THAT  JEW! 


answer  thee.  Comfort  ye,  comfort  ye  My  people,  saith 
your  God.  Speak  ye  comfortably  to  Jerusalem,  and  cry 
unto  her  that  her  warfare  is  accomplished,  that  her  in¬ 
iquity  is  pardoned.  O  Zion,  that  bringest  good  tidings, 
get  thee  up  into  thy  high  mountain.  O  Jerusalem,  that 
bringeth  good  tidings,  lift  up  thy  voice  with  strength. 
Lift  it  up,  be  not  afraid;  say  unto  the  cities  of  Judah, 
Behold  your  God!  Behold,  The  Lord  God  will  come 
with  a  strong  hand,  and  His  arm  shall  rule  for  Him. 
Behold.  His  reward  is  with  Him,  and  His  work  before 
Him.  He  shall  feed  His  flock  like  a  shepherd ;  He  shall 
gather  the  lambs  with  His  arms,  and  carry  them  in  His 
bosom,  and  shall  gently  lead  them  that  are  with  young. 
Thou,  Israel,  art  My  servant.  Jacob,  whom  I  have  chosen, 
the  seed  of  Abraham  My  friend.  Thou  art  My  servant ;  I 
have  chosen  thee  and  not  cast  thee  off.  Fear  thou  not ;  for 
I  am  with  thee.  Be  not  dismayed;  for  I  am  Thy  God. 
I  will  strengthen  thee;  yea,  I  will  help  thee;  yea,  I  will 
uphold  thee  with  the  right  hand  of  My  righteousness. 
Behold  all  they  that  were  incensed  against  thee  shall  be 
ashamed  and  confounded;  they  shall  be  as  nothing;  and 
they  that  strive  with  thee  shall  perish.  Thou  shalt  seek 
them,  and  shalt  not  find  them,  even  them  that  contend 
with  thee ;  they  that  war  against  thee  shall  be  as  nothing, 
and  as  a  thing  of  naught.  For  I,  The  Lord  Thy  God, 
will  hold  thy  right  hand,  saying  unto  thee,  Fear  not,  I 
will  help  thee ;  fear  not,  thou  worm  Jacob,  and  ye  men 
of  Israel ;  I  will  help  thee,  saith  The  Lord,  and  Thy  Re¬ 
deemer,  the  Holy  One  of  Israel.  That  they  may  see, 
and  know,  and  consider,  and  understand  together  that 
the  hand  of  The  Lord  hath  done  this,  and  The  Holy 
One  of  Israel  hath  created  it.  But  now  thus  saith  The 
Lord  that  created  thee,  O  Jacob,  and  He  that  formed 


THAT  JEW! 


29 


thee,  O  Israel,  fear  not,  for  I  have  redeemed  thee;  I 
have  called  thee  by  thy  name;  thou  art  Mine.  When 
thou  passeth  through  the  waters,  I  will  be  with  thee; 
and  through  the  rivers,  they  shall  not  overflow  thee; 
when  thou  walkest  through  the  fire,  thou  shalt  not  be 
burned;  neither  shall  the  flame  kindle  upon  thee.  For  I 
am  the  Lord  Thy  God,  thp  Holy  One  of  Israel,  Thy 
Saviour. 

My  salvation  shall  not  tarry:  and  I  will  place  salva¬ 
tion  in  Zion  for  Israel  My  glory.  But  Zion  said,  The 
Lord  hath  forsaken  me,  and  my  Lord  hath  forgotten  me. 
Can  a  woman  forget  her  sucking  child,  that  she  should 
not  have  compassion  on  the  son  of  her  womb?  Yea, 
they  may  forget,  yet  will  I  not  forget  thee.  Behold,  I 
have  graven  thee  upon  the  palms  of  My  hands :  thy  walls 
are  continually  before  Me.  Thus  saith  The  Lord  God, 
Behold,  I  will  lift  up  Mine  hand  to  the  Gentiles,  and 
set  up  My  standard  to  the  people:  and  they  shall  bring 
thy  sons  in  thine  arms,  and  thy  daughters  shall  be  carried 
upon  their  shoulders.  And  kings  shall  be  thy  nursing 
fathers  and  queens  thy  nursing  mothers :  they  shall  bow 
down  to  thee,  with  their  faces  toward  the  earth,  and  lick 
up  the  dust  of  thy  feet :  and  thou  shalt  know  that  I  am 
The  Lord,  for  they  shall  not  be  ashamed  that  wait  for 
Me:  all  flesh  shall  know  that  I  The  Lord  am  Thy 
Saviour  and  Thy  Redeemer,  the  Mighty  One  of 
Jacob.  I,  even  I,  am  He  that  comforteth  you:  who  are 
thou  that  thou  shouldst  be  afraid  of  a  man  that  shall  die, 
and  the  son  of  man  which  shall  be  made  as  grass.  *  *  * 
I  have  covered  thee  in  the  shadow  of  Mine  hand,  and 
say  unto  Zion,  Thou  art  My  people.  Break  forth  into 
joy,  sing  together  ye  waste  places  of  Jerusalem:  for 
The  Lord  hath  comforted  His  people ;  He  hath  redeemed 


30 


THAT  JEW! 


Jerusalem.  All  thy  children  shall  be  taught  of  The 
Lord:  and  great  shall  be  the  peace  of  thy  children.  In 
righteousness  shalt  thou  be  established:  thou  shalt  be 
far  from  oppression,  for  thou  shalt  not  fear;  and  from 
terror,  for  it  shall  not  come  near  thee. 

And  The  Redeemer  shall  come  to  Zion,  and  unto  them 
that  turn  from  transgression  in  Jacob,  saith  The  Lord. 
As  for  Me,  this  is  My  covenant  with  them,  saith  The 
Lord.  My  spirit  that  is  upon  thee,  and  My  words  which 
I  have  put  in  thy  mouth  shall  not  depart  out  of  thy 
mouth,  nor  out  of  the  mouths  of  thy  seed,  nor  out  of 
the  mouth  of  thy  seed’s  seed,  saith  The  Lord,  from 
henceforth  and  for  ever.  The  abundance  of  the  sea 
shall  be  converted  unto  thee,  the  forces  of  the  Gentiles 
shall  come  unto  thee.  For  the  nations  and  kingdom  that 
will  not  serve  thee  shall  perish ;  yea,  those  nations  shall 
be  utterly  wasted.  The  sons  of  them  that  afflicted  thee 
shall  come  bending  unto  thee :  and  all  they  that  despised 
thee  shall  bow  themselves  down  at  the  soles  of  thy  feet. 
And  they  shall  call  thee  The  City  of  The  Lord,  the 
Zion  of  The  Holy  One  of  Israel.  Thy  people  also 
shall  be  all  righteous.  They  shall  inherit  the  land  for 
ever,  the  branch  of  My  planting,  the  work  of  My  hands, 
that  I  may  be  glorified.  A  little  one  shall  become  a 
thousand,  and  a  small  one  a  strong  nation.  I  The  Lord 
will  hasten  it  in  His  time.  Ye  shall  be  named  the  priests 
of  The  Lord.  Men  shall  call  you  the  ministers  of  Our 
God.  Ye  shall  eat  the  riches  of  the  Gentiles  and  in  their 
glory  shall  ye  boast  yourselves.  Their  seed  shall  be 
known  among  the  Gentiles,  and  their  offspring  among 
the  people:  all  that  see  them  shall  acknowledge  them, 
that  they  are  the  seed  which  The  Lord  hath  blessed. 
I  have  set  watchmen  upon  thy  walls,  O  Jerusalem,  which 


THAT  JEW 


3i 


shall  never  hold  their  peace  day  nor  night.  Ye  that 
make  mention  of  The  Lord,  keep  not  silence.  And  give 
Him  no  rest,  till  He  establish,  and  till  He  make  Jerusa¬ 
lem  a  praise  in  the  earth.  The  Lord  hath  sworn  by  His 
right  hand,  and  by  the  arm  of  His  strength.  *  *  *  Be¬ 
hold,  The  Lord  hath  proclaimed  to  the  end  of  the  world, 
say  ye  to  the  daughter  of  Zion,  behold,  thy  salvation 
cometh!  Rejoice  ye  with  Jerusalem  and  be  glad  with 
her,  for  thus  saith  The  Lord.  Behold,  I  will  ex¬ 
tend  peace  to  her  like  a  river,  and  the  glory  of  the  Gen¬ 
tiles  like  a  flowing  stream :  as  one  whom  his  mother 
comforteth,  so  will  I  comfort  you ;  and  ye  shall  be  com¬ 
forted  in  Jerusalem.  For  as  the  new  heavens  and  the 
new  earth  which  I  will  make  shall  remain  before  Me, 
saith  The  Lord,  so  shall  your  seed  and  your  name  re¬ 
main.  At  that  time  they  shall  call  Jerusalem  the  throne 
of  The  Lord;  in  those  days  the  house  of  Judah  shall 
walk  with  the  house  of  Israel.  Lo,  the  days  come,  saith 
The  Lord,  that  I  will  bring  again  the  captivity  of  My 
people,  Israel  and  Judah,  saith  The  Lord.  And  I  will 
cause  them  to  return  to  the  land  that  I  gave  to  their  fath¬ 
ers,  and  they  shall  possess  it.  Therefore  fear  thou  not, 
O  My  servant  Jacob,  saith  The  Lord;  neither  be  dis¬ 
mayed,  O  Israel,  for,  Lo,  I  will  save  thee  from  afar  and 
thy  seed  from  the  land  of  their  captivity!  And  Jacob 
shall  return,  and  shall  be  at  rest,  and  be  quiet,  and  none 
shall  make  him  afraid,  for  I  am  with  thee,  saith  The 
Lord,  to  save  thee.  And  out  of  them  shall  proceed 
thanksgiving  and  the  voice  of  them  that  make  merry ; 
and  I  will  multiply  them,  and  they  shall  not  be  small. 
Yea,  I  have  loved  thee  with  an  everlasting  love:  there¬ 
fore  with  loving  kindness  have  I  drawn  thee.  Again  I 
will  build  thee,  and  thou  shalt  be  built,  O  virgin  daugh- 


3^ 


THAT  JEW! 


ter  of  Israel :  thou  shalt  again  be  adorned  with  thy  tab- 
rets,  and  shalt  go  forth  in  the  dances  of  them  that  make 
merry.  Hear  the  word  of  The  Lord,  O  ye  nations,  and 
declare  it  in  the  isles  afar  off,  and  say,  He  that  scattered 
Israel  will  gather  him,  and  keep  him,  as  a  shepherd  doth 
his  flock.  Therefore  they  shall  come,  and  sing  in  the 
height  of  Zion,  and  shall  flow  together  to  the  goodness 
of  The  Lord,  for  wheat  and  for  wine,  and  for  oil  and 
for  the  young  of  the  flock  and  for  the  herd:  and  their 
souls  shall  be  as  watered  garden ;  and  they  shall  not  sor¬ 
row  any  more  at  all.  Then  shall  the  virgin  rejoice  in 
the  dance,  both  young  men  and  old  together,  for  I  will 
turn  their  mourning  into  joy,  and  I  will  comfort  them 
and  make  them  rejoice  from  their  sorrow.  For  this  is 
the  covenant  that  I  will  make  with  the  house  of  Israel. 
After  these  days,  saith  The  Lord,  I  will  put  My  law 
in  their  inward  parts,  and  write  it  in  their  hearts,  and  will 
be  their  God,  and  they  shall  be  My  people.  And  they 
shall  teach  no  more  every  man  his  neighbor,  and  every 
man  his  brother,  saying  Know  The  Lord,  for  they  shall 
all  know  me,  from  the  least  of  them  unto  the  greatest  of 
them,  saith  The  Lord:  for  I  will  forgive  their  iniquity 
and  I  will  remember  their  sin  no  more.  Thus  saith  The 
Lord  which  giveth  the  sun  for  a  light  by  day,  the  ordi¬ 
nances  of  the  moon  and  of  the  stars  by  night,  which  divid- 
eth  the  sea  when  the  waves  thereof  roar.  The  Lord  of 
Hosts  is  His  name.  If  these  ordinances  depart  from 
before  Me,  saith  The  Lord,  then  the  seed  of  Israel  also 
shall  cease  from  being  a  nation  before  me  for  ever.  Thus 
saith  The  Lord.  If  heaven  above  can  be  measured,  and 
the  foundations  of  the  earth  searched  out  beneath,  I  will 
also  cast  off  all  the  seed  of  Israel  for  all  that  they  have 


THAT  JEW! 


33 


done,  saith  The  Lord.  I  will  make  an  everlasting  cove¬ 
nant  with  them,  and  I  will  not  turn  away  from  them. 
I  will  put  my  fear  in  their  hearts,  that  they  shall  not 
depart  from  Me.  Yea,  I  will  rejoice  over  them  to  do 
them  good,  assuredly  with  My  whole  heart  and  with  My 
whole  mind. 

“For  thus  saith  the  Lord,  like  as  I  have  brought  all 
this  great  evil  upon  this  people,  so  will  I  bring  upon  them 
all  the  good  that  I  have  promised  them.  I  will  cleanse 
them  from  all  their  iniquity.  And  it  shall  be  to  Me  a 
name  of  joy,  a  praise  and  an  honor  before  all  the  nations 
of  the  earth  which  shall  hear  all  the  good  that  I  do  unto 
them.  As  the  hosts  of  heaven  cannot  be  numbered, 
neither  the  sand  of  the  sea  measured,  so  will  I  multiply 
the  seed  of  David,  My  servant,  and  the  Levites  that 
minister  unto  me.” 

All  the  prophecies  so  far  quoted  were  uttered  before 
the  first  destruction  of  Jerusalem. 

After  carefully  reading  the  promises  of  Jehovah,  both 
to  His  people  Israel  and  to  their  land,  surely  no  pro¬ 
fessing  Christian  can  put  aside  the  matter  with  indiffer¬ 
ence,  as  a  thing  to  be  thought  of  lightly,  and  as  of  no 
importance  to  them  personally.  Surely  where  the  Word 
of  God  speaks  so  plainly,  showing  how  near  to  the  heart 
and  thought  of  Jehovah  is  Israel,  Christians  cannot  with 
impunity  refuse  to  pray  for  the  peace  of  Jerusalem.  And 
then  the  promise,  “They  shall  prosper  that  love  thee.” 
If  heretofore,  O  reader,  you  have  thought  of  these  words 
as  addressed  to  the  church,  for  your  soul’s  sake  and  your 
own  future  peace,  read  over  the  context  before  and 
after,  and  you  will  see  how  absurd  to  think  the  church 
mentioned  in  the  passages. 


34 


THAT  JEW! 


I  shall  now  quote  some  prophecies  littered  after  the 
carrying  away  captive  of  Israel,  and  finally  of  Judah  and 
his  companions. 

“But  fear  not  thou,  O  my  servant  Jacob,  and  be  not  dis¬ 
mayed,  O  Israel,  for  behold  I  will  save  thee  from  afar 
off,  and  thy  seed  from  the  land  of  their  captivity;  and 
Jacob  shall  return,  and  be  in  rest  and  at  ease,  and  none 
shall  make  him  afraid.  *  *  *  I  will  not  make  a  full 
end  of  thee,  but  correct  thee  in  measure.  For  I  will 
take  you  from  among  the  heathen  and  gather  you  out  of 
all  countries  and  I  will  bring  you  into  your  own  land. 
A  new  heart  also  will  I  give  you,  and  a  new  spirit  will  I 
put  within  you :  and  I  will  take  away  the  stony  heart 
out  of  your  flesh,  and  I  will  give  you  an  heart  of  flesh. 
And  I  will  put  My  spirit  within  you,  and  cause  you  to 
walk  in  my  statutes,  and  ye  shall  keep  My  judgments  and 
do  them.  Behold,  I  will  take  the  stick  of  Joseph,  which 
is  in  the  hand  of  Ephraim,  and  make  them  with  him, 
even  with  the  stick  of  Judah,  and  make  them  one  stick, 
and  they  shall  be  one  in  Mine  hand.  I  will  gather  them 
on  every  side,  and  I  will  make  them  one  nation  in  the 
land  upon  the  mountains  of  Israel,  and  One  King  shall 
reign  over  them  all,  and  they  shall  be  no  more  two  na¬ 
tions  ;  neither  shall  they  be  divided  into  two  kingdoms 
any  more  at  all.  And  they  shall  dwell  in  the  land  that 
I  have  given  unto  Jacob,  My  servant,  wherein  your 
fathers  have  dwelt ;  and  they  shall  dwell  therein,  even 
they,  and  their  children,  and  their  children’s  children, 
forever :  and  My  servant  David  shall  be  their  prince  for¬ 
ever.  Moreover,  I  will  make  a  covenant  of  peace  with 
them :  it  shall  be  an  everlasting  covenant  with  them ;  and 
I  will  place  them,  and  multiply  them,  and  will  set  My 
sanctuary  in  the  midst  of  them  forevermore.  My  taber- 


THAT  JEW! 


35 


nacle  also  shall  be  with  them.  Yea,  I  will  be  their  God, 
and  they  shall  be  My  people,  when  I  have  brought  them 
again  from  the  people,  and  gathered  them  out  of  their 
enemies’  lands,  and  have  left  none  of  them  any  more. 
Neither  will  I  hide  My  face  any  more  from  them:  for 
I  have  poured  out  My  spirit  upon  the  house  of  Israel, 
saith  The  Lord  God. 

“And  the  glory  of  The  Lord  came  into  the  house  by 
the  way  of  the  gate  whose  prospect  is  towards  the  east. 
So  the  spirit  took  me  up  and  brought  me  to  the  inner 
court  and  behold,  the  glory  of  The  Lord  filled  the  house. 
And  He  said  unto  me,  son  of  man,  the  place  of  My 
throne,  and  the  place  of  the  soles  of  My  feet,  where  I 
will  dwell  in  the  midst  of  the  children  of  Israel  forever. 

And  I  will  pour  upon  the  house  of  David,  and  upon 
the  inhabitants  of  Jerusalem  the  spirit  of  grace  and  sup¬ 
plication  and  they  shall  look  upon  Me  whom  they  have 
pierced.  I  will  gather  all  nations  against  Jerusalem  to 
battle.  Then  shall  The  Lord  go  forth  and  fight  against 
those  nations,  and  His  feet  shall  stand  that  day  upon  the 
Mount  of  Olives,  which  is  before  Jerusalem  on  the  east. 
The  Lord  shajl  be  king  over  all  the  earth. 

Then  shall  the  offering  of  Judah  and  Jerusalem  be 
pleasant  unto  The  Lord,  as  in  the  days  of  old,  and  as  in 
former  years.  For  I  am  The  Lord  ;  I  change  not ;  there¬ 
fore  ye  sons  of  Jacob  are  not  consumed.” 


36 


THAT  JEW! 


CHAPTER  IV 

god’s  thoughts  toward  the  land 

It  is  most  interesting  to  read  of  God’s  thoughts  in  re¬ 
gard  to  Palestine,  to  note  how  He  watches  over  it,  and 
what  are  His  future  intentions  towards  this  spot  of 
earth — more  highly  favored  than  any  other  spot  on  the 
entire  globe. 

That  is  a  most  remarkable  statement  uttered  by  Moses : 
“A  land  which  the  Lord  thy  God  careth  for.  The  eyes 
of  the  Lord  thy  God  are  always  upon  it,  from  the  begin¬ 
ning  of  the  year  even  unto  the  end  of  the  year.”  Of  no 
other  land  could  it  be  said  what  The  Lord  said  of  this 
place :  “Defile  not  therefore  the  land  which  ye  shall  in¬ 
habit,  wherein  1  dwell;  for  I  The  Lord  dwell  among 
the  children  of  Israel.” 

And  one  particular  place  of  Palestine  was  blest  even 
more  than  the  rest:  “But  when  ye  go  over  Jordan,  and 
dwell  in  the  land  which  the  Lord  your  God  giveth  you 
to  inherit,  then  there  shall  be  a  place  which  the  Lord 
your  God  shall  choose  to  cause  His  name  to  dwell  there.” 
We  read  when  Solomon  built  the  Temple :  “And  it  came 
to  pass  when  the  priests  were  come  out  of  the  holy  place, 
that  the  cloud  filled  the  house  of  the  Lord,  so  that  the 
priests  could  not  stand  to  minister  because  of  the  cloud ; 
for  the  glory  of  the  Lord  had  filled  the  house  of  the 
Lord.” 

When  Israel,  in  spite  of  all  His  tender  care  and  loving 
kindness,  sinned  against  Him  and  polluted  His  land,  one 


THAT  JEW! 


37 


can  readily  see  on  reading  the  narrative  how  loathe  The 
Lord  was  to  leave  the  House: 

“And  the  spirit  lifted  me  up  between  the  earth  and  the 
heaven  and  brought  me  in  the  visions  of  God  to  Jerusa¬ 
lem,  to  the  door  of  the  inner  gate  that  looketh  towards 
the  north  where  was  the  seat  of  the  image  of  jealousy, 
which  provoketh  to  jealousy.  And,  behold  the  glory  of 
the  God  of  Israel  was  there.” 

Then  we  read  of  the  going  out  of  the  house:  “Now 
the  cherubims  stood  on  the  right  side  of  the  house  *  *  * 
and  the  cloud  filled  the  inner  court.  Then  the  story  of 
the  Lord  went  up  from  the  cherub  over  the  threshold 
of  the  house.  *  *  *  Then  the  glory  of  the  Lord  departed 
from  off  the  threshold  of  the  house,  and  stood  over  the 
cherubims,  and  the  cherubims  lifted  up  their  wings,  and 
mounted  up  from  the  earth  in  my  sight  *  *  *  and  the 
glory  of  the  God  of  Israel  was  over  them  above.”  And 
then  comes  the  terrible  words :  “I  will  bring  a  sword 
upon  you,  saith  the  Lord  God.”  But  hearken  to  the  words 
that  God  speaks  immediately  afterwards,  before  He 
leaves  the  Temple,  His  tender  love  breaks  forth — a  father 
who  must  chastise  his  child,  and  yet  before  the  rod  is 
laid  on  the  child’s  back,  LIe  comforts  him.  How  gra¬ 
ciously  pitiful  is  our  God.  Listen:  “Thus  saith  The 
Lord  God  :  Although  I  have  cast  them  far  off  among  the 
heathen  and  although  I  have  scattered  them  among  the 
countries,  yet  will  I  be  to  them  as  a  little  sanctuary  in 
the  countries  where  they  will  come.  Therefore  say,  Thus 
saith  the  Lord  God:  I  will  even  gather  you  from  the 
people  and  assemble  you  out  of  the  countries  where  ye 
have  been  scattered  and  I  will  give  you  the  Land  of 
Israel  *  *  *  and  they  shall  be  my  people  and  I  will  be 
their  God.” 


33 


THAT  JEW! 


With  these  words  of  love:  “Then  did  the  cherubims 
lift  up  their  wings  *  *  *  and  the  glory  of  the  God  of 
Israel  was  over  them  above.  And  the  glory  of  the  Lord 
went  up  from  the  midst  of  the  city  and  stood  upon  the 
mountain  which  is  on  the  east  side  of  the  city.”  The 
mountain  on  the  east  side  was  Olivet.  This  was  imme¬ 
diately  before  the  first  Temple  and  the  first  city  of  Jeru¬ 
salem  were  destroyed. 

This  sorrowing  departure  brings  vividly  to  the  eye 
another  event  which  took  place  six  hundred  years  after¬ 
wards  :  “And  when  He  was  come  near,  He  beheld  the 
City,  and  wept  over  it.”  And  listen  to  this  heart  wail : 
“O  Jerusalem!  Jerusalem!  how  often  would  I  have  gath¬ 
ered  thy  children  together  even  as  a  hen  gathereth  her 
chickens  under  her  wings  and  ye  would  not !  Behold  your 
House  is  left  unto  you  desolate!”  And  again  hearken 
to  the  words  of  a  compassionate  Love:  “For  I  say  unto 
you,  ye  shall  not  see  me  henceforth,  till  ye  shall  say, 
Blessed  is  He  that  cometh  in  the  name  of  the  Lord !” 

So  we  see  He  will  come  again,  and  they  shall  welcome 
Him  with  praise  and  thanksgiving. 

This  event  took  place  but  a  little  time  before  the  de¬ 
struction  of  the  second  Temple  and  the  second  city  of 
Jerusalem.  And  now  what  are  God’s  promises  towards 
the  city  and  the  land? 

Though  the  cloud  of  Jehovah  is  not  now  in  Jerusalem 
He  has  His  watchers  there.  Listen :  “I  have  set  watch¬ 
men  upon  thy  walls,  O  Jerusalem,  which  shall  never  hold 
their  peace  day  nor  night :  Ye  that  make  mention  of  the 
Lord  keep  not  silence  and  give  Him  no  rest,  till  He 
establish  and  till  He  make  Jerusalem  a  praise  on  the 
earth.  The  Lord  hath  sworn  by  His  right  hand,  and  by 
the  arm  of  His  strength,  Surely  I  will  no  more  give  thy 


THAT  JEW! 


39 


corn  to  be  meat  for  thine  enemies:  and  the  sons  of  the 
strangers  shall  not  drink  thy  wine,  for  the  which  thou 
hast  labored :  But  they  that  have  gathered  it  shall  eat 
it,  and  praise  the  Lord ;  and  they  that  have  brought  it 
together  shall  drink  it  in  the  courts  of  my  holiness.  Be¬ 
hold,  the  Lord  hath  proclaimed  unto  the  end  of  the 
world,  Say  ye  to  the  daughter  of  Zion,  Behold,  thy 
Salvation  cometh :  behold,  His  reward  is  with  Llim, 
and  His  work  before  Him.  And  they  shall  call 
them  The  Holy  People,  the  Redeemed  of  the  Lord :  and 
thou  shalt  be  called,  sought  out,  a  city  not  forsaken.” 
“Awake,  Awake:  put  on  thy  strength,  O  Zion,  put  on 
thy  beautiful  garments,  O  Jerusalem,  the  Holy  City.  *  *  * 
The  Lord  shall  bring  again  Zion.  *  *  *  Break  forth  into 
joy,  sing  together,  ye  waste  places  of  Jerusalem:  for  the 
Lord  hath  comforted  His  people,  He  hath  redeemed 
Jerusalem.  Comfort  ye,  comfort  ye  My  people,  saith 
your  God.  Speak  ye  comfortably  to  Jerusalem,  and  cry 
unto  her  that  her  warfare  is  accomplished,  that  her  in¬ 
iquity  is  pardoned.  And  the  Ransomed  of  The  Lord  shall 
return,  and  come  to  Zion  with  songs  and  everlasting  joy 
upon  their  heads ;  they  shall  obtain  joy  and  gladness,  and 
sorrow  and  sighing  shall  flee  away.  And  it  shall  come 
to  pass  in  the  last  days  that  the  mountain  of  the  Lord’s 
house  shall  be  established  in  the  top  of  the  mountains 
*  *  *  and  all  nations  shall  flow  unto  it.  And  many  people 
shall  go  and  say,  Come  ye  and  let  us  go  up  to  the  moun¬ 
tain  of  the  Lord,  to  the  house  of  the  God  of  Jacob  *  *  * 
for  out  of  Zion  shall  go  forth  the  law,  and  the  word  of 
the  Lord  from  Jerusalem.  The  wolf  also  shall  dwell  with 
the  lamb,  and  the  leopard  shall  lie  down  with  the  kid: 
and  the  calf  and  the  young  lion,  and  the  fatling  together 
and  a  little  child  shall  lead  them.  And  the  cow  and  the 


40 


THAT  JEW! 


bear  shall  feed:  and  their  young  ones  shall  lie  down  to¬ 
gether:  and  the  lion  shall  eat  straw  like  the  ox,  and  the 
sucking  child  shall  play  on  the  hole  of  the  asp,  and  the 
weaned  child  put  his  hand  on  the  adder’s  den.  For  the 
Lord  will  have  mercy  on  Jacob  and  will  yet  choose  Israel 
and  set  them  in  their  own  land.  For  the  people  shall 
dwell  in  Zion  at  Jerusalem.  Then  shall  He  give  the  rain 
of  thy  seed  that  thou  shalt  sow  the  ground  withal;  and 
bread  of  the  increase  of  the  earth,  and  it  shall  be  fat 
and  plenteous :  and  in  that  day  shall  thy  cattle  feed  in 
large  pastures.  The  oxen  likewise  and  the  young  asses 
that  ear  the  ground  shall  eat  savory  provender  which  hath 
been  winnowed  with  the  shovel  and  with  the  fan.  And 
there  shall  be  up  on  every  high  mountain,  and  upon  every 
high  hill,  rivers  and  streams  of  waters.  Moreover  the 
light  of  the  moon  shall  be  as  the  light  of  the  sun,  and  the 
light  of  the  sun  shall  be  sevenfold,  as  the  light  of  seven 
days,  in  the  day  that  the  Lord  bindeth  up  the  breach  of 
His  people  and  healeth  the  stroke  of  their  wound.  And 
my  people  shall  dwell  in  a  peaceable  habitation,  and  in 
sure  dwellings,  and  in  quiet  resting  places.  And  the  sons 
of  the  strangers  shall  build  up  thy  walls,  and  their  Kings 
shall  minister  unto  thee.  Therefore  thy  gates  shall  be 
open  continually :  they  shall  not  be  shut  day  nor  night ; 
that  men  may  bring  unto  thee  the  forces  of  the  Gentiles. 
*  *  *  The  glory  of  Lebanon  shall  come  to  thee,  the  fir 
tree,  the  pine  tree,  and  the  box  together,  to  beautify  the 
place  of  my  sanctuary:  and  I  will  make  the  place  of  my 
feet  glorious.  And  they  shall  build  the  old  wastes,  they 
shall  raise  up  the  former  desolations,  and  they  shall  re¬ 
pair  the  waste  cities,  the  desolations  of  many  generations. 
For  brass  I  will  bring  gold,  and  for  iron  I  will  bring 
silver,  and  for  wood  brass,  and  for  stones  iron.  And 


THAT  JEW ! 


4i 


strangers  shall  stand  and  feed  your  flocks,  and  the  sons 
of  the  alien  shall  be  your  plowmen  and  your  vine  dressers. 
Behold,  I  create  Jerusalem  a  rejoicing  and  her  people  a 
joy.  And  I  will  rejoice  in  Jerusalem  and  joy  in  My  Peo¬ 
ple.  And  they  shall  build  houses  and  inhabit  them:  and 
they  shall  plant  vineyards  and  eat  the  fruit  of  them.  They 
shall  not  build  and  another  inhabit;  they  shall  not  plant 
and  another  eat;  for  as  the  days  of  a  tree  are  the  days  of 
my  people  and  mine  elect  shall  long  enjoy  the  work  of 
their  hands.  They  shall  not  labor  in  vain,  nor  bring  forth 
for  trouble ;  and  it  shall  come  to  pass,  that  before  they 
call,  I  will  answer :  and  while  they  are  yet  speaking  I  shall 
hear.  And  they  shall  dwell  in  Judah  itself,  and  in  the 
cities  thereof  together,  husbandmen,  and  they  that  go 
forth  with  flocks.  Behold  the  days  shall  come  said  the 
Lord  that  I  will  sow  the  house  of  Israel  and  the  house  of 
Judah  with  the  seed  of  man  and  with  the  seed  of  beasts. 
Behold,  I  will  gather  them  out  of  all  countries,  whither 
I  have  driven  them  in  mine  anger,  and  in  my  fury,  and 
in  great  wrath ;  and  I  will  bring  them  again  unto  this 
place,  and  I  will  cause  them  to  dwell  safely ;  yea,  I  will 
rejoice  over  them  to  do  them  good  and  I  will  plant  them 
in  this  land  assuredly  with  my  whole  heart,  and  with  my 
whole  soul.  Thus  saith  the  Lord :  Again  there  shall  be 
heard  in  this  place,  the  voice  of  joy,  and  the  voice  of 
gladness,  and  the  voice  of  the  bridegroom  and  the  voice 
of  the  bride,  and  the  voice  of  them  that  shall  say,  Praise 
the  Lord  of  Hosts:  for  the  Lord  is  good:  for  Plis  mercy 
endureth  forever.  In  the  cities  of  the  mountains,  in  the 
cities  of  the  vale,  and  in  the  cities  of  the  south,  and  in 
the  land  of  Benjamin,  and  in  the  places  about  Jerusalem, 
and  in  the  cities  of  Judah,  shall  the  flocks  pass  again  un¬ 
der  the  Hands  of  Him  that  telleth  them,  saith  the  Lord. 


42 


THAT  JEW! 


And  it  shall  come  to  pass  in  that  day  *  *  *  saith 

the  Lord  I  will  hear  the  heavens,  and  they  shall  hear  the 
earth ;  and  the  earth  shall  hear  the  corn,  and  the  wine, 
and  the  oil.  Fear  not,  O  Land;  be  glad  and  rejoice;  for 
the  Lord  will  do  great  things.  Be  not  afraid  ye  beasts 
of  the  field !  for  the  pastures  of  the  wilderness  do  spring, 
for  the  tree  beareth  her  fruit,  the  fig  tree,  and  the  vine 
do  yield  their  strength.  He  hath  given  you  the  former 
rain  moderately,  and  He  will  cause  to  come  down  for 
you  the  rain,  the  former  rain,  and  the  latter  rain  in  the 
first  month.  And  the  floors  shall  be  full  of  wheat,  and 
the  fats  shall  overflow  with  wine  and  oil.  And  I  will  re¬ 
store  to  you  the  years  that  the  locust  hath  eaten,  the 
cankerworm,  and  the  caterpillar,  and  the  palm  worm,  my 
great  army  that  I  sent  among  you.  And  ye  shall  eat  in 
plenty  and  be  satisfied.  So  shall  ye  know  that  I  am  the 
Lord  your  God  dwelling  in  Zion,  my  holy  mountain ; 
then  shall  Jerusalem  be  holy.  And  it  shall  come  to  pass 
in  that  day,  that  the  mountains  shall  drop  new  wine,  and 
the  hills  shall  flow  with  milk,  and  all  the  rivers  of  Judah 
shall  flow  with  water  and  a  fountain  shall  come  forth 
of  the  house  of  the  Lord  and  shall  water  the  valley 
of  Shittim.  Judah  shall  dwell  forever,  and  Jerusalem 
from  generation  to  generation.  I  will  bring  them  out 
from  the  people  and  gather  them  from  the  countries, 
and  will  bring  them  to  their  own  land,  and  feed  them 
upon  the  mountain  of  Israel  by  the  rivers,  and  in  all  the 
inhabited  places  of  the  country.  I  will  feed  them  in 
a  good  pasture  and  upon  the  high  mountains  of  Israel 
shall  their  fold  be.  They  shall  dwell  safely  in  the  wilder¬ 
ness  and  sleep  in  the  woods.  And  I  will  make  them  and 
the  places  around  my  hill  a  blessing.  And  the  tree  of 
the  field  shall  yield  her  fruit,  and  the  earth  shall  yield 


THAT  JEW! 


43 


her  increase  and  they  shall  be  safe  in  their  land.  Ye 
shall  dwell  in  the  land  that  I  gave  to  your  fathers.  I 
will  multiply  the  fruit  of  the  tree,  and  the  increase  of 
the  field.  I  will  cause  you  to  dwell  in  the  cities,  and  the 
wastes  shall  be  builded.  And  the  desolate  land  shall  be 
tilled  whereas  it  lay  desolate  in  the  sight  of  all  that 
passed  by.  And  they  shall  say,  this  land  that  was  deso¬ 
late  is  become  like  the  garden  of  Eden ;  and  the  waste 
and  desolate  cities  are  become  fenced  and  are  inhabited 
*  *  *  so  shall  the  waste  cities  be  filled  with  flocks 

of  men.  They  shall  dwell  in  the  land  that  I  have  given 
unto  Jacob  my  servant;  and  they  shall  dwell  therein, 
even  they,  and  their  children  forever.  My  Tabernacle 
also  shall  be  with  them..  And  the  name  of  the  city  from 
that  day  shall  be  Jehovah — Shammah — the  Lord  is  there. 
Behold  the  days  shall  come,  saith  the  Lord,  that  the 
plowman  shall  overtake  the  reaper,  and  the  treader  of 
grapes  him  that  soweth  seed,  and  the  mountain  shall 
drop  sweet  wine,  and  all  the  hills  shall  melt.  And  I  will 
bring  again  the  captivity  of-  my  people  Israel  and  they 
shall  build  the  waste  cities  and  inhabit  them:  and  they 
shall  plant  vineyards,  and  drink  the  wine  thereof :  they 
shall  also  make  gardens  and  eat  the  fruit  of  them.  And 
I  will  plant  them  upon  their  land  and  they  shall  no 
more  be  pulled  up  out  of  their  land  which  I  have  given 
them,  saith  the  Lord  Thy  God.  Upon  Mount  Zion  shall 
be  deliverance  and  there  shall  be  holiness ;  and  the  house 
of  Jacob  shall  possess  their  possessions. 

“But  in  the  last  days  it  shall  come  to  pass,  that  the 
mountain  of  the  house  of  the  Lord  shall  be  established 
in  the  top  of  the  mountain :  for  the  law  shall  go  forth 
of  Zion,  and  the  word  of  the  Lord  from  Jerusalem. 
And  He  shall  judge  among  many  people:  and  they 


44 


THAT  JEW! 


shall  beat  their  swords  into  plowshares,  and  their  spears 
into  pruning  hooks ;  nation  shall  not  lift  up  sword  against 
nation,  neither  shall  they  learn  war  any  more.  But  they 
shall  sit  every  man  under  his  vine  and  under  his  fig 
tree :  and  none  shall  make  them  afraid :  for  the  mouth 
of  the  Lord  of  Hosts  hath  spoken  it.  The  Lord  shall 
reign  over  them  in  Mount  Zion  from  thenceforth,  even 
for  ever.  Jerusalem  shall  be  inhabited  as  towns  without 
walls  for  the  multitude  of  men  and  cattle  therein.  Sing 
and  rejoice,  O  Daughter  of  Zion:  for,  lo,  I  come  and  I 
will  dwell  in  the  midst  of  thee,  saith  the  Lord.  The  Lord 
shall  inherit  Judah  His  portion  in  the  Holy  Land  and 
shall  choose  Jerusalem  again.  Thus  saith  the  Lord :  I 
am  returned  unto  Zion,  and  will  dwell  in  the  midst  of 
Jerusalem :  And  Jerusalem  shall  be  called  a  City  of 
Truth:  and  the  mountain  of  the  Lord  of  Hosts:  the  Holy 
Mountain.  Thus  saith  the  Lord  of  Hosts :  There 
shall  yet  old  men  and  old  women  dwell  in  the  streets  of 
Jerusalem,  and  every  man  with  his  staff  in  his  hand  for 
very  age.  And  the  streets  of  the  city  shall  be  full  of 
boys  and  girls  playing  in  the  streets  thereof.  Yea,  many 
people  and  strong  nations  shall  come  to  seek  the  Lord 
of  Hosts  in  Jerusalem  and  to  pray  before  the  Lord.  Thus 
saith  the  Lord  of  Hosts :  In  those  days  it  shall  come 
to  pass  that  ten  men  shall  take  hold  out  of  all  languages 
of  the  nations,  even  shall  take  hold  of  the  skirt  of  him 
that  is  a  Jew,  saying,  we  will  go  with  you:  for  we  have 
heard  that  God  is  with  you.  And  it  shall  come  to  pass 
that  every  one  that  is  left  of  all  nations  which  came  up 
against  Jerusalem  shall  even  go  up  from  year  to  year 
to  worship  the  King,  the  Lord  of  Hosts,  and  to  keep 
the  feast  of  Tabernacles.  And  it  shall  be,  that  whoso 
will  not  come  up  of  all  the  families  of  the  earth  unto 


THAT  JEW! 


45 


Jerusalem  to  worship  the  King,  the  Lord  of  Hosts,  even 
upon  them  shall  be  no  rain.  And  if  the  family  of  Egypt 
go  not  up,  and  come  not,  that  have  no  rain,  there  shall 
be  the  plague,  wherewith  the  Lord  will  smite  the  nations 
that  come  not  up  to  keep  the  feast  of  Tabernacle.” 

(This  plague  is  indeed  a  terrible  one,  we  read:  “Their 
flesh  shall  consume  away  while  they  stand  upon  their 
feet,  and  their  eyes  shall  consume  away  in  their  holes, 
and  their  tongue  shall  consume  away  in  their  mouth.”) 

“In  that  day  shall  there  be  upon  the  bells  of  the  horses, 
Holiness  unto  the  Lord ;  and  the  pots  in  the  Lord’s  House 
shall  be  like  the  bowls  before  the  altar.  Yea,  every  pot 
in  Jerusalem  and  in  Judah  shall  be  holiness  to  the  Lord. 
Then  shall  the  offerings  of  Judah  and  Jerusalem  be  pleas¬ 
ant  unto  the  Lord,  as  in  the  former  days,  and  as  in  for¬ 
mer  years.  And  all  nations  shall  call  you  blessed:  for 
ye  shall  be  a  delightsome  Land,  saith  the  Lord  of  Hosts.” 

From  the  portions  just  read  one  can  see  God’s  purposes 
for  the  future  of  His  land — Palestine — and  let  it  be  care¬ 
fully  noted  that  man’s  worth  in  the  return  of  the  Jews 
to  the  Land  is  entirely  ignored.  It  shows  plainly  the 
Zionist  movement  has  no  share  in  God’s  thoughts.  The 
“I  will !”  of  Jehovah  runs  in  every  line,  in  every  promise. 
God  is  everything — man  only  the  object  of  His  blessing. 


46 


THAT  JEW! 


CHAPTER  V. 

AS  TO  THE  RETURN 

In  reading  the  Scriptures  carefully  one  must  discern 
that  in  the  near  future  there  are  two  different  returns  of 
the  Jews  to  Palestine. 

The  first  return — that  of  part  of  the  nation  in  unbelief 
— still  rejecting  the  Messiah. 

The  last  and  final  return — that  of  the  entire  nation  from 
every  place  under  heaven,  no  matter  where  scattered, 
and  that  IMMEDIATELY  AFTER  THE  VISIBLE 
RETURN  OF  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST  ON 
MOUNT  OLIVET. 

Of  the  first  return,  how  accomplished,  and  when,  one 
must  not  be  dogmatic.  While  the  Scriptures  are  clear 
as  to  the  return  in  unbelief  it  fixes  (as  far  as  can  now 
be  seen)  no  date,  nor  does  it  record  the  means  used  to 
accomplish  that  return. 

It  may  be  in  the  near  future  that  The  Holy  Spirit 
will  give  grace  to  some  keen  searcher  of  The  Word  so 
as  to  enable  him  to  compute  the  times  of  the  end — for  no 
doubt  that  information  is  in  The  Word  and  zvill  be  re¬ 
vealed  in  God's  good  time — but  not  before.  It  therefore 
would  be  most  unbecoming  to  the  believer  at  the  present 
time  to  dare  to  map  out  the  means  and  ways  by  which 
Israel  in  unbelief  will  be  returned  to  the  Land  of  their 
fathers. 

As  to  the  second  return  one  has  firm  foundation  under 
his  feet,  the  Scriptures  are  very  explicit  on  that  final 


THAT  JEW! 


47 


return  of  all  Israel — and  never  more  shall  they  be  driven 
from  that  blessed  Land. 

At  present  time  there  are  more  Jews  in  Palestine 
than  at  any  period  since  the  Roman  legions  stamped  out 
their  national  life.  More  Jews  in  Jerusalem  than  in  any 
period  since  Titus’  battering  rams  levelled  down  its  walls 
and  the  unknown  soldier’s  torch  put  fire  to  the  Temple, 
destioying  the  beautiful  house  whose  porches  ofttimes 
sheltered  the  head  of  the  God-Man — the  Rejected  King 
of  the  Jews. 

Several  successful  colonies  are  scattered  here  and 
there  in  the  Land;  the  orange,  olive  and  fruit  trees 
planted,  the  grape  trellised  and  pruned,  the  wheat  sown 
and  reaped,  blessed  by  a  new  thing  in  the  land — “the 
eaily  and  latter  rains”  so  long  held  back  from  the  for¬ 
saken  land.  Jerusalem’s  streets  resound  with  the  tramp 
of  20,000  of  her  sons  and  daughters — she  is  full,  and  has 
flowed  over  her  walls,  until  a  new  city  is  springing  up 
around  about  her.  The  railroad  has  come  to  her  gates 
from  the  sea  coast,  and  flashes  its  rails  on  towards  the 
City  of  Damascus — and  next,  perchance,  to  Babylon! 

The  Germans  have  received  concessions  from  the 
Sultan,  and  in  ten  years  from  now  Jerusalem  and  Baby¬ 
lon,  and  the  port  of  entry  at  the  Persian  Gulf,  will  be  knit 
together  by  steel  bands — and  one  may  soon  travel  in  a 
few  hours  a  journey  that  took  weeks  to  accomplish  when 
Solomon  ruled  in  his  glory— the  greatest  of  all  the  kings 
of  the  earth  in  his  time. 

And  this  Zionist  movement  will  hardly  die.  If  it 
should  it  will  soon  be  replaced  by  another  more  deter¬ 
mined  movement  that  will  most  surely  be  the  means  of 
taking  back  part  of  the  people  “scattered  and  peeled”  to 
the  home  of  their  forefathers. 


48 


THAT  JEW! 


With  their  return  there  will  be  an  enormous  amount 
of  capital  poured  into  the  coffers  of  that  land.  The  specu¬ 
lators  will  be  there,  the  agents  of  the  rich  Jews  (who  will 
still  live  in  splendor  in  the  various  capitals  of  the  world) 
will  be  there — the  Gentile  and  the  Jew  together  will  give 
plenty  of  money  to  improve  the  land.  Palestine  was  once 
the  highway  of  the  nations  for  trade  and  barter — and  no 
doubt  will  be  again.  The  development  of  the  Euphrates 
Valley  will  quicken  the  pulse  of  commerce.  The  time  is 
near  at  hand  when  Babylon  will  awaken  and  the  world 
be  astonished  at  the  marvelous  harvests  gathered  from 
the  Euphrates  Valley,  of  wheat,  and  corn,  and  wine,  and 
olives,  and  all  fruits  that  the  heart  lusteth  after.  The  de¬ 
velopment  of  the  Euphrates  Valley  will  fill  the  to-be-built 
cities  of  Palestine  with  the  hum  of  machinery — will  fill 
them  with  men  and  women,  and  boys  and  girls.  We  shall 
see  Jerusalem  become  a  modern  city ;  we  shall  behold  a 
stately  Temple,  and  again  shall  a  splendid  ritual,  with 
the  rarest  of  music,  the  grandest  of  singing,  dazzle  the 
gazer’s  eyes,  as  he  beholds  the  sacrified  lamb  on  the  altar 
both  at  morning  and  eventide.  It  will  be  a  magnificent 
structure  and  will  rival  the  glory  of  Solomon’s,  for  not  a 
rich  nor  poor  Jew  on  the  face  of  the  earth  but  will  be 
only  too  glad,  too  overjoyed,  to  cast  his  mite  into  the 
treasury  of  that  building.  And  such  a  temple,  and  such 
a  ritual  will  bring  people  from  all  over  the  world — Gen¬ 
tiles  to  pay  their  tribute  of  curiosity  at  that  shrine — and 
no  doubt  that  the  subscription  list  to  the  building  will  have 
tens  of  thousands  of  Gentile  names,  and  some  fabulous 
amounts. 

For  the  Gentiles  at  large  will  take  no  heed  of  the 
words  of  God  uttered  some  twenty-five  hundred  years 
ago  against  this  very  building :  “Thus  saith  the  Lord : 


THAT  JEW! 


49 

where  is  the  house  that  ye  build  unto  me  ?  He  that  kill- 
eth  an  ox  is  as  if  he  slew  a  man ;  he  that  sacrificeth  a 
lamb,  as  if  he  cut  off  a  dog’s  neck;  he  that  offereth  an 
oblation,  as  if  he  offered  swine’s  blood ;  he  that  burneth 
incense,  as  if  he  blessed  an  idol.  Yea,  they  have  chosen 
their  own  ways,  and  their  soul  delighteth  in  their 
abominations.” 

But  poor  Israel,  and  the  still  more  blinded  Gentiles, 
even  so-called  Christians,  will  rejoice,  and  be  glad,  and 
be  merry,  and  dream  beautiful  dreams  of  a  golden  future. 

And  Israel  blest  in  the  fields,  and  blest  and  increased  in 
the  stores,  and  in  the  counting  houses,  by  the  wild 
schemes,  and  rush  of  the  speculator’s  gold,  by  the  tide 
of  commerce  that  will  stream  through  the  Euphrates 
Valley  from  the  Orient  to  the  cities  of  the  Occident, 
leaving  a  tribute  in  the  hands  of  the  Jewish  brokers  and 
merchants  in  Jerusalem,  will  dream  that  their  God  has 
at  least  returned  to  them,  and  will  be  merciful  both  to 
the  Land  and  to  His  people. 

They  will  be  disturbed  by  certain  fellows  only — a  min¬ 
gling  of  Jews  and  Gentiles— who  will  persist  in  telling 
them  of  dark  days  in  the  near  future  for  their  persistent 
rejection  of  Jesus  Christ. 

No  doubt  but  the  heart  of  Israel  will  be  glad,  and 
dream  that  only  a  golden  future  is  before  them.  And 
pride  will  fill  the  heart  and  brain ;  and  the  cry  will  be : 

The  bricks  are  fallen  down,  but  we  will  build  with  hewn 
stones ;  the  sycamores  are  cut  down,  but  we  will  change 
them  into  cedars.”  “They  have  been  replenished  from 
the  East,  and  are  sooth-sayers  like  the  Philistines,  and 
they  please  themselves  in  the  children  of  strangers.  Their 
land  is  also  full  of  silver  and  gold,  neither  is  there  any 


5° 


THAT  JEW! 


end  of  their  treasures :  their  land  is  also  full  of  horses, 
neither  is  there  any  end  of  their  chariots.” 

Israel  will  be  prouder  than  ever  ;  their  hearts  and  brains 
will  be  filled  with  the  most  vaunting  ambitions ;  they  will 
grow  domineering,  haughty  and  conceited. 

They  will  grow  very  tolerant  of  religious  views.  They 
will  prate  much  of  “The  Brotherhood  of  Man — the  Fath¬ 
erhood  of  God”  ;  every  “ism”  will  be  welcomed  except 
the  story  of  the  Cross  as  a  Remedy  for  Sin.  By  this 
time  the  higher  critics  will  have  full  sway  in  all  the  so- 
called  Protestant  lands.  The  colleges  are  now  full  of 
them — casting  discredit  on  the  Old  Testament — soon  to 
follow  it  up  with  hints  and  innuendoes  against  the  cred¬ 
ibility  of  Christ,  and  His  Apostles;  soon  every  pulpit 
in  the  cities  will  be  filled  by  their  hellish  spawn,  and  the 
Christ  preached  “a  perfect  man,”  “the  Master,”  “the 
Great  Example,”  the  “Highest  of  Created  Beings” — but 
not  divine.  Such  a  view  as  this  will  not  be  obnoxious  to 
the  Jews,  who  will  grow  proud  of  this  Great  Jewish 
Teacher,  but  as  to  these  fellows  who  will  persist  in  mak¬ 
ing  the  Noble  Christ  divine,  away  with  such  fellows  from 
the  earth ! 

To  the  Jew  it  will  be  a  bright  and  happy  world — rosy- 
clad  the  future.  They  have  at  last  found  a  home,  a  rest, 
a  peace,  a  plenty ;  they  will  become  intoxicated  with  their 
happiness. 

And  now  let  us  read  as  to  how  The  Lord  regards  this 
returned  people: 

“Therefore  thus  saith  the  Lord  God:  Because  ye  are 
all  become  dross,  behold,  therefore,  I  will  gather  you 
into  the  midst  of  Jerusalem. 

“As  they  gather  silver,  and  brass,  and  iron,  and  lead, 


THAT  JEW! 


5i 


and  tin,  will  I  gather  you  in  mine  anger  and  in  my  fury, 
and  I  will  leave  you  there,  and  melt  you. 

Yea,  I  will  gather  you,  and  blow  upon  you  in  the 

fire  of  my  wrath,  and  ye  shall  be  melted  in  the  midst 
thereof. 

As  silver  is  melted  in  the  midst  of  the  furnace,  so 
shall  ye  be  melted  in  the  midst  thereof ;  and  ye  shall 
know  that  I  the  Lord  have  poured  out  my  fury  upon 
you. 

And  it  shall  come  to  pass,  that  in  all  the  land ,  saith 
The  Lord,  two  parts  therein  shall  he  cut  off  and  die;  but 
the  third  shall  he  left  therein. 

“And  I  will  bring  the  third  part  through  the  fire,  and 
will  refine  them  as  silver  is  refined,  and  will  try  them 
as  gold  is  tried :  they  shall  call  on  my  name,  and  I  will 
hear  them.  I  will  say,  it  is  my  people:  and  they  shall 
say,  The  Lord  is  my  God.” 

To  all  who  believe  in  The  Lord  Jesus  Christ — trust¬ 
ing  in  His  death  and  in  His  righteousness  for  salvation 
the  above  words  will  be  all  sufficient  to  keep  them  from 
doing  aught,  by  word  of  mouth,  by  written  words,  by 
helping  hand,  either  by  influence  or  gold,  to  help  on  this 
returning  of  the  Jews  in  unbelief  to  the  Land  of  their 
Fathers.  A  true  Christian  should  be  a  praying  spectator, 

watching  every  movement  with  the  keenest  scrutiny _ 

but  never  for  one  moment  aiding  or  abetting  the  First 
Return.  Hands  off !  Touch  not,  handle  not,  neither  aid 
by  voice,  pen,  nor  money,  as  God  is  permitting  them  to 
return  in  unbelief — a  curse  is  yet  upon  them — the  awful 
curse  they  desired  on  their  own  heads  has  never  been 
removed — “His  blood  he  upon  us  and  our  children!” 
Christians  can  only  pray  for  the  peace  of  Jerusalem  but 
should  leave  the  manner  of  the  return  in  God’s  hands. 


52 


THAT  JEW! 


He,  in  His  own  good  time,  will  permit  the  return ;  He 
will  remove  every  obstacle  from  their  path — and  no  na¬ 
tion,  nor  peoples  can  hinder  when  God’s  hour  has  come. 

And  neither  is  it  the  Christian’s  duty  to  hinder  them 
in  any  shape  or  form.  Let  them  alone.  Our  whole  duty 
is  to  tell  them  of  a  Redeemer — and  forget  not  to  tell  them 
of  The  Coming  Redeemer.  It  is  quite  useless  to  tell 
the  Jews  a  half  Gospel — and,  at  best,  the  preaching  now¬ 
adays  is  but  proclaiming  a  half  Gospel.  Redemption  for 
the  Body,  for  the  Earth,  for  the  Soul  is  the  whole  of  the 
whole  of  the  glad  tidings — but,  alas,  only  a  redemption 
of  the  soul  is  preached ;  therefore  God  cannot  fully  bless 
such  words.  Shortly  shall  arise  a  body  of  preachers  and 
teachers  who  will  not  be  afraid  to  tell  of  The  Full  Gos¬ 
pel — to  preach  of  the : 

Redemption  of  The  Soul  from  Sin, 

Redemption  of  The  Body  from  the  Grave, 

Redemption  of  The  Earth  from  the  hands  of  Satan. 
But  with  the  return  of  the  Jews  will  come  the  building 
of  the  Temple.  A  magnificent  house  built  quickly  with 
a  lavishness  of  wealth  that  will  dazzle  humanity. 

And  surely  a  thrill  of  excitement  will  sweep  over  all 
the  world,  when  the  day  comes  to  commence  the  sacri¬ 
fices,  to  light  the  fire  on  the  altar;  and  after  an  absence 
of  two  thousand  years  to  see  again  ascending  to  the  sky 
the  smoke  of  the  morning  and  evening  sacrifices. 

Such  an  event,  it  may  be  supposed,  will  either  be  treated 
with  much  indifference  by  the  so-called  Christian 
Church,  or  with  a  protest.  But  by  the  world  it  will  be 
treated  as  a  national  event,  that  will  draw  the  eyes  of 
the  nations — and  focus  them  to  one  spot.  Perchance  the 
rich  of  the  earth  will  be  attracted  there — from  all  of  the 
principal  cities  of  the  world — perchance  excursions  from 


THAT  JEW! 


53 


every  nation  will  be  attempted ;  and  will  fill  Jerusalem 
with  a  crowd  of  curiosity  hunters — in  numbers  exceeding 
the  palmiest  days  of  Solomon. 

And  may  we  hint  at  what  may  be — that  Satan  may 
attempt  at  that  time  to  attract  the  eyes  of  the  world  to 
His  Masterpiece.  At  the  dedication  of  Solomon’s  Tem¬ 
ple — “The  cloud  came  down  and  filled  the  house.”  Now 
there  may  be  raised  the  question — where  shall  come  the 
fire  to  kindle  the  wood  of  the  first  sacrifice — the  ques¬ 
tion  of  profane  fire  may  loom  up  in  the  minds  of  the 
strictly  orthodox  Jews,  and  assume  such  proportions  as 
to  trouble  and  annoy  them. 

Then  may  we  suppose  that  at  that  time  a  certain  Prince 
of  Babylon — the  man  more  connected  with  the  rebuilding 
of  Babylon  than  any  other — will  have  been  chosen  by 
the  leaders  of  Israel  as  their  best  friend,  whose  friendship 
will  be  best  suited  to  afford  a  bulwark  against  the  envy 
of  many  nations  who  will  still  have  their  old  hatred  of 
the  Jews.  Now  we  are  told  in  the  Scriptures  that  the 
Prince  of  Babylon  is  to  make  a  Covenant  of  seven  years 
with  the  Jews,  to  be  the  Protector  of  them,  and  of  the 
Holy  Land ;  what  then  if  this  same  day  which  will  see 
the  beginning  of  Jewish  sacrifice  after  a  lapse  of  two 
thousand  years,  will  also  be  the  day  of  the  ratification 
of  this  same  Covenant.  Then  suppose  when  the  moment 
for  the  lighting  of  the  sacrificial  fire  should  come,  that 
in  the  presence  of  a  million  or  more  spectators — suppose 
this  Prince  should  come  forward  and  by  the  lifting  up 
of  his  hands  bring  fire  down  from  the  clear  sky  to  alight 
on  the  altar — devouring  the  wood  and  the  meat  sacrifice 
— what  would  be  the  result?  It  would  lead  some  of  the 
Jews  and  Gentiles  to  believe  that  the  Prince  of  Babylon 
was  indeed  divine;  and  would  be  the  commencement  of 


54 


THAT  JEW! 


Satanic  worship  that  will  surely  spread  over  the  limits 
of  the  old  Roman  earth — if  it  does  not  lap  over  and  find 
believers  and  followers  in  every  nation  under  heaven. 

Far  be  it  from  us  to  dogmatize,  but  it  is  rather  sugges¬ 
tive  to  know,  that  the  bringing  down  of  fire  from  heaven 
is  to  be  one  of  the  miracles  performed  by  Antichrist  to 
deceive  human  kind. 


THAT  JEW! 


55 


CHAPTER  VI 

THE  IMPERIAL  CITY  OF  ANTICHRIST 

Commerce  which  God  intended  to  be  a  blessing  has  by 
the  manipulation  of  Satan  become  a  curse  to  humanity. 
Commerce  has  become  a  breaker  of  the  entire  decalogue. 
Commerce  under  Satan  has  become  a  Godless  thing — a 
despiser  of  all  restraint,  divine  and  natural,  and  is  rap¬ 
idly  growing  Satanic  in  its  aims  and  ends.  Every  civil¬ 
ized  government  upon  the  face  of  the  earth  has  become 
subservient  to  commerce — and  commercial  supremacy, 
the  supreme  end  of  the  battlings  between  the  nations. 
Gain,  and  the  getting  of  gain,  have  become  the  paramount 
object  of  all  the  Christian  nations.  In  the  interest  of 
commerce  and  to  extend  “their  sphere  of  influence,' ”  the 
so-called  Christian  nations  have  invaded  the  heathen 
kingdoms  of  the  earth  with  fire  and  sword — and  when 
they  have  conquered — have  presented  to  them  bottles  of 
gin  and  brandy  and  beer  to  tempt,  betray,  and  debase 
them.  We  have  sent  them  missionaries,  to  be  sure,  for 
“with  fire  and  sword  we  have  made  a  pathway  for  the 
Lord” — and  no  doubt  He  who  ruleth  the  nations  per¬ 
mits  the  Christian  nations  to  punish  the  heathen  for  their 
sins ;  God  permits  where  He  does  not  will.  It  was  not 
to  carry  out  the  will  of  The  Lord  but  for  the  further¬ 
ance  of  selfish  ends  that  powder  and  ball  swept  aside  the 
primitive  weapons  of  the  helpless  heathen,  and  made  the 
Christian  powers  the  masters  of  the  Orient.  God’s  peo¬ 
ple,  to  be  sure,  seized  the  opportunity  thus  afforded  to 


THAT  JEW! 


56 

proclaim  the  good  news,  but  it  was  not  for  the  publica¬ 
tion  of  the  good  news  the  battles  were  fought. 

The  Word  of  God  is  very  plain — the  words  most  un¬ 
mistakable,  in  which  He  declares  that  He  will  punish 
the  nations  of  the  earth  for  their  wicknedness.  God’s 
eyes  are  watching  the  so-called  Christian  nations.  He 
knows  of  their  greed  that  looks  upon  the  shedding  of 
blood  as  a  very  little  thing.  But  most  assuredly  He  will 
require  at  the  hand  of  each  nation  the  heathen  brother’s 
blood  which  they  have  shed.  Jehovah’s  justice  never 
slumbers  and  the  nations  cannot  escape  the  penalty  of 
their  greed. 

The  word  of  God  is  very  clear  cut  as  to  the  trend  of 
future  wickedness.  The  nations  are  to-day  digging  up 
the  graveyard  of  what  was  once  the  greatest  of  Oriental 
cities — once  the  capital  city  of  the  world.  The  Land 
of  Shinar  has  already  heard  the  blowing  of  the  trumpet 
which  will  awaken  the  New  Babylon  to  a  wonderful  life. 
Satan  has  vast  designs  in  his  brain — though  often  baf¬ 
fled  in  past  ages — but  the  time  seems  rapidly  approaching 
when  God  will  permit  Satan  to  develop  the  mighty  plans 
that  will  awaken  the  Euphrates  Valley  to  new  life,  and 
make  it  the  Paradise  of  the  Earth.  Men  have  ever 
sighed  for  the  lost  Eden,  and  Satan  will  make  an  Eden 
for  the  unregenerate  man — to  woo,  and  win,  and  entice, 
and  charm  his  soul — so  that  he  will  dream  (poor  fool) 
that  Babylon  is  indeed  “the  Gate  of  God” — a  God  that 
the  unregenerated  man  can  worship,  and  love,  and  enjoy. 

Babylon  in  the  Euphrates  Valley  will  shortly  be  re¬ 
built.  Perchance  the  Antichrist  may  not  lay  the  founda¬ 
tion,  none  can  tell — but  when  he  becomes  the  Prince  of 
Babylon  he  will  make  it  by  vast  munificence  the  glory 
of  the  earth.  Here  commerce  will  come  to  dwell  in  its 


THAT  JEW! 


57 


final  home.  Her  merchantmen  shall  become  the  great 
ones  of  the  earth.  Here  trade  will  center;  it  will  from 
its  glittering  and  pompous  palaces  decide  the  price  of 
every  article  of  commerce  the  wide  world  round.  The 
glory  of  London  and  New  York  will  pale  before  the 
influence  of  this  Oriental  city — Babylon’s  exchange  will 
be  the  clearing  house  of  the  world. 

It  will  be  the  Mecca  of  the  rich  and  poor  alike.  The 
mighty  Prince  of  Babylon  will  frame  laws  that  will  be 
the  wonder  of  the  world.  It  will  be  the  treasure  house 
of  the  world,  where  no  man  need  starve.  Commerce  will 
make  gold  plenty,  so  that  corn,  and  meat,  and  wine,  shall 
be  in  abundance.  Human  art  here  shall  blossom  to  a 
prime.  The  builders,  the  sculptors,  the  painters  will  here 
reap  the  grandest  harvest  ever  conceived  by  human  brain. 
Music  and  drama  shall  reach  the  apex  of  their  desires. 
The  world  shall  be  astonished  at  its  magnificent  glory 
and  beauty.  Mirth  and  laughter  and  merry  dance  shall 
not  cease  night  or  day  in  Babylon.  And  this  Prince  of 
Babylon  who  comes  to  the  world  as  its  true  Saviour  will 
be  inspired  by  Satan — a  Satanic  man  whose  intellect  shall 
confound  and  put  to  shame  the  earth  wisdom  of  the  ages. 

No  use  to  sneer,  reader,  the  Word  of  Jehovah  records 
this  Personage  on  many  pages  of  The  Book.  It  may 
seem  absurd  to  think  for  an  instant  in  this  enlightened 
age,  that  idolatry  will  be  the  final  outcome  of  the  scien- 
tifice  age,  that  the  image  of  a  man  will  be  worshipped  by 
the  most  civilized  nations  of  the  world — yet  so  says 
Jehovah  who  lieth  not — and  therefore,  in  spite  of  your 
laughter  and  sneers  it  will  be  so.  Not  only  that,  but  at 
last  the  inhabitants  of  the  Old  Roman  earth  will  worship 
Satan — Hail  Him  as  the  Harbinger  of  Light. 

It  would  seem  that  Antichrist  will  first  appear  as  the 


5« 


THAT  JEW! 


perfect  man,  in  all  things  the  man  without  a  peer — his 
intellect  the  most  colossal — endowed  seemingly  with  the 
attributes  of  a  God.  At  first  a  man  of  peace,  “the  words 
of  his  mouth  sweeter  than  honey,”  his  pleasure  to  befriend 
the  poor,  the  needy;  the  man  that  humanity  has  hoped 
for  and  prayed  to  see. 

The  Deliverer  from  superstition — the  greatest  scholar, 
statesman,  orator,  poet,  musician,  inventor — the  most 
scientific  man  the  world  has  ever  seen !  He  goes  to 
Jerusalem,  with  the  blessings  of  humanity  on  his  head. 
The  Peaceful  Prince  of  Babylon  will  have  only  fair  sweet 
words  to  say.  The  Seven  Years’  Covenant  signed  and 
sealed  between  the  returned  Israelites  and  himself,  he 
will  receive  an  ovation  at  Jerusalem  the  like  of  which 
for  magnificence  the  world  has  never  seen.  He  returns 
to  Babylon  with  the  prayers  of  Israel  on  his  head  and 
the  best  wishes  of  their  hearts.  Now  surely  may  the 
Jews  rest — every  man  under  his  vine  and  fig  tree  and 
none  make  them  afraid.  Ah,  is  not  He  indeed  the 
Messiah  ? 

But  Satan  has  met  the  Prince  of  Babylon,  and  not  in 
vain  has  the  offer  been  made  of  “all  the  kingdoms  of  the 
World  and  the  glory  of  them.”  The  Prince  of  Babylon 
accepts,  and  gladly  falls  down,  and  worships  Lucifer. 

And  here  is  a  mystery  that  at  present  we  cannot  solve 
— details  are  missing — we  dare  not  be  dogmatic.  Men 
who  have  studied  and  prayed  for  light  on  this  subject 
draw  inferences  from  various  hints  scattered  through 
The  Book — but  none  dares  to  speak  with  authority.  It 
would  seem  as  if  the  Prince  of  Babylon  is  to  be  slain, 
how,  or  when,  not  recorded — yet  that  body  does  not  see 
corruption,  but  some  lost  spirit  comes  from  Hades,  enters 
in  and  makes  it  his  home.  One  may  readily  see  an  aping 


THAT  JEW! 


59 


of  the  Resurrection  of  The  Lord  Christ.  For  no  doubt 
there  is  to  be  an  imitation  of  the  Blessed  Trinity  by  a 
Satanic  Trinity. 

The  Father — Aped  by  Satan. 

The  Son — Aped  by  Antichrist. 

The  Spirit — Aped  by  the  False  Prophet. 

Certain  points  are  positive — without  dispute.  The 
word  is  very  plain  and  we  dare  not  cast  the  warning 
aside.  The  Antichrist,  a  person,  it  may  be  a  lost  spirit, 
yet  in  human  form,  shall  honor,  with  gold,  and  silver, 
and  with  precious  stones,  and  pleasant  things,  “a  strange 
God  whom  he  shall  acknowledge  and  increase  with  glory.” 
And  this  God  will  give  Antichrist  “his  power,  and  his 
.  seat  and  great  authority.”  “And  all  the  world  shall  won¬ 
der  after  the  beast,  and  they  worshipped  the  Dragon 
(Satan)  which  gave  power  unto  the  beast.  And  they 
worshipped  the  beast,  and  power  was  given  him  over  all 
kindreds,  and  tongues  and  nations:  And  all  that  dwell 
upon  the  earth  (the  old  Roman  Empire)  shall  worship 
him.  The  False  Prophet  doeth  great  wonders  so  that  he 
maketh  fire  come  down  from  heaven  on  earth  in  sight 
of  man  and  deceiveth  them  that  dwell  on  the  earth  by 
miracles  which  he  had  power  to  do  in  sight  of  the  beast: 
saying  to  them  that  dwell  on  the  earth  that  they  should 
make  an  image  to  the  beast,  which  had  the  wound  by  a 
sword  and  did  live  (the  beast  that  was,  and  is  not,  and 
shall  ascend  out  of  the  bottomless  pit).  And  he  had  power 
to  give  life  unto  the  image  of  the  beast,  that  the  image 
of  the  beast  should  both  speak  and  cause  that  as  many 
as  would  not  worship  the  image  of  the  beast  should  be 
killed.  And  he  causeth  all,  both  small  and  great,  rich 
and  poor,  free  and  bound,  to  receive  a  mark  in  their 
right  hands  or  in  their  foreheads :  And  that  no  man  might 


6o 


THAT  JEW! 


buy  or  sell,  save  he  that  had  the  mark  or  the  name  of  the 
beast,  or  the  number  of  his  name.” 

So  when  we  see  that  in  the  future  City  of  Babylon 
Antichrist  will  be  worshipped  as  God,  and  Antichrist 
will  worship  Satan. 

And  so  the  Jews  will  be  again  in  the  toils  of  Satan — 
and  for  three  years  and  one-half  God  will  give  Antichrist 
control  over  the  nations  and  the  Jews. 


THAT  JEW! 


61 


CHAPTER  VII 

THE  TWO  WITNESSES 

It  may  well  be  supposed  that  the  people  of  the  Land — 
more  especially  the  inhabitants  of  Jerusalem — were  fully 
warned  of  the  consequences  of  acknowledging  the  God- 
ship  of  the  Prince  of  Babylon.  Suppose  then,  that  sud¬ 
denly  one  morning  at  Jerusalem  in  the  Temple  enclosure, 
two  men  stood — men  of  such  appearance  and  character 
as  to  arrest  the  attention  of  the  Jews  who  were  faithful 
enough  each  morning  “to  go  up  to  the  Temple  to  pray.” 
They  were  two  men  arrayed  in  long  flowing  garments 
of  sackcloth — of  sturdy  and  commanding  height,  faces 
that  strangely  partook  of  the  vigor  of  youth  yet  with 
the  appearance  of  bordering  on  the  middle  age.  One  in 
looks  older  than  the  other.  The  younger,  a  man  in  full 
prime  of  life,  with  all  the  vim  and  dash  of  a  fearless  son 
of  the  desert — the  older,  a  man  of  calm,  majestic  pres¬ 
ence,  yet  with  a  flash  of  the  eye  which  told  that  age  had 
not  as  yet  laid  its  hand  to  chill  a  single  faculty  either 
of  mind  or  body.  These  men  soon  had  a  curious  crowd 
about  them,  and  all  gazers  questioned:  who  are  they — 
and  from  whence  have  they  come?  Quickly  the  news 
spreads  from  lip  to  lip,  from  street  to  street,  from  house 
to  house,  until  the  concourse  of  men,  women  and  chil¬ 
dren  blocked  the  approach  to  the  Temple.  And  then  when 
the  officials  of  both  Temple  and  city  came  to  demand  of 
these  two  silent  men  who  they  were,  all  of  a  sudden  fell 
from  their  lips  words  of  strange  import. 

They  announced  themselves  to  be  messengers  from 


62 


THAT  JEW! 


Jehovah — sent  by  Jehovah  to  the  people  of  Israel  to 
warn  them  of  coming  wrath  and  destruction ;  and  this 
Prince  of  Babylon,  who  proclaimed  himself  the  Man- 
God,  whose  Prophet  in  his  presence  performed  wondrous 
signs  and  miracles  to  deceive  the  people,  was  coming  to 
Jerusalem  to  demand  of  the  people  divine  homage.  They 
warned  the  people  that  if  they  received  him  as  their 
Messiah,  and  gave  divine  honor,  the  soul  who  bent  the 
knee  to  his  worship,  receiving  his  name  on  hand  or  fore¬ 
head,  that  soul,  Jehovah  would  most  assuredly  cut  off 
from  His  presence  both  in  this  life  and  in  that  which 
was  to  come ;  that  God’s  vengeance  would  surely  send 
to  perdition ;  that  this  indeed  was  the  commencement  of 
the  day  of  Jacob’s  trouble;  that  this  demon-possessed, 
devil-inspired  man  was  the  deceiver  spoken  of  by  all  the 
holy  prophets,  whom  The  Coming  Messiah  would  de¬ 
stroy  by  the  breath  of  His  lips. 

One  may  well  imagine  the  breathless  silence  that  held 
the  listeners — and  then  came  such  a  wild  burst  of  angry 
fury  when  two-thirds  of  the  listeners  hissed  out  the 
cries  of : 

“Blasphemy  !  Death  to  such  traitors  !  Away  with  such 
fellows  from  the  earth !” 

The  most  daring  and  angry  ones  crowded  near,  murder 
in  their  eyes,  and  cries  of  vengeance  on  their  lips — but, 
perchance,  the  two  men,  each  with  staff  in  hand,  swept 
staff  round  about  them,  and  the  crowd  shrank  back,  until 
there  was  a  small,  clear  circle  round  them — they,  the 
center  of  a  ring  of  shrieking,  cursing  humanity,  who  had 
murder  in  the  soul,  in  the  glare  of  the  eye,  in  the  shake 
of  the  hand. 

And  perchance  clear  and  distinct  rang  the  voices  of 
the  two  men,  as  if  from  one  man: 


THAT  JEW! 


63- 


Stand  back,  men  of  Israel !  Beware  of  touching  us — 
the  touch  is  certain  death !” 

And  more  daring  bigots,  with  cries  of  disdain,  stepped 
inside  the  circle  the  staffs  had  made — aye,  with  laugh 
of  contempt  on  their  lips,  and  hands  stretched  out  to  grasp 
the  men — but  suddenly  wild  terror  and  dismay — with  a 
mighty  roar  of  confusion  the  crowd  shrank  away — for, 
lo,  when  the  men  opened  their  mouths,  as  it  were  a 
living  tongue  of  flame  lit  on  the  unfortunates  who  would 
not  heed  the  warning  not  to  touch;  and  then,  in  an  in¬ 
stant,  only  heaps  of  ashes  lay  where  once  stood  living 
men ! 

And  now  perchance  the  rulers — the  great  and  wealthy 
— met  in  haste  in  the  Council  Chamber.  They  had  been 
rudely  awakened  from  their  sleep,  after  the  wine  and 
dainty  feast  revels  of  the  night  before.  With  incredu¬ 
lous  wonderment  they  heard  the  story  of  the  frightened 
men,  but  straightway  a  company  of  guards  were  sent  to 
bring  these  two  disturbers  of  the  peace  to  the  Council 
Chambers.  Perchance  a  jest  was  on  many  of  these  great 
men’s  tongues,  and  perchance  rebuke  for  the  men  who 
ever  came  with  this  same  wild  story.  But  then  another 
surprise — for  hasty  feet  came  to  tell  that  the  guards  had 
also  perished — that  only  heaps  of  ashes  marked  where 
they  had  dared  to  touch  the  terrible  men. 

And  there  were  blanched  cheeks,  for  fully  one-third 
of  the  rulers  exclaimed : 

“This  surely  is  the  finger  of  Jehovah  !” 

But  the  other  two-thirds  sneered  at  such ;  their  hearts 
were  hardened ;  this  was  but  some  trick,  some  new  scien¬ 
tific  discovery,  some  subtle  explosive,  which  these  two 
fellows — Christians  without  a  doubt — had  invented  to 
terrorize  the  good  friends  of  the  Prince  of  Babylon.  Nay, 


64 


THAT  JEW! 


perchance  fifty  guards  would  bring  these  dastards  to  their 
presence. 

And  the  rulers  waited — the  time  spent  in  wild  bicker¬ 
ing — the  majority  scowling  and  flinging  bitter  taunts  at 
the  men  who  dared  to  call  this  the  finger  of  God. 

And  again  came  men  of  flying  feet,  of  hasty  tread,  pale 
of  face,  and  with  terror  on  their  lips — what  a  tale !  As 
had  perished  the  first  guards  sent — so  had  miserably  per¬ 
ished  the  second. 

Consternation  and  the  wildest  anger  prevailed,  and  per¬ 
chance  a  stronger  guard  was  sent. 

And  again  no  guards  came  back,  but  men  with  selfsame 
tale — a  heap  of  ashes  at  these  strange  men’s  feet. 

And  then  an  awful  terror,  silence,  dread,  fell  on  that 
company  of  rulers.  And,  lo,  perchance,  arose  as  one 
man,  the  third  of  the  rulers ! 

“Lo,  this  must  be  indeed  the  finger  of  Jehovah  !  and 
is  not  this  the  selfsame  kind  of  miracle  whereby  Elijah 
the  Tishbite  destroyed  the  messengers  of  the  wicked  King 
Ahaziah — Men  and  Brethren !  perchance,  one  of  these 
men  is  indeed  Elijah  whom  Jehovah  by  the  last  of  our 
Holy  Prophets  promised  to  send  us  before  the  coming  of 
the  Great  and  Dreadful  Day  of  the  Lord!” 

But  such  words  were  drowned  by  the  cries : 

“Traitors!  Treason  to  the  Prince  of  the  Covenant! 
Long  live  the  Prince  of  Babylon,  and  Jehovah  confound 
his  traducers  and  enemies.” 

And  amid  this  undignified  uproar  of  the  rulers  per¬ 
chance  suddenly  walked  in  the  Two  Witnesses. 

The  amazed  rulers  sank  back  silent,  and  listened  as 
the  two  men  stood  before  them,  and  declared  who  they 
were,  and  why  they  came.  One  boldly  said,  “I  am  Elijah 
the  Tishbite !”  and  the  other,  perchance  ( no  man  yet 


THAT  JEW!  65 

dare  be  dogmatic  on  this  point)  declared  himself  to  be 
Moses ! 

And  in  that  Council  Chamber  they  told  that  Jehovah 
had  sent  them  to  warn,  to  instruct,  to  tell  of  the  mighty 
wonders  He  would  surely  perform,  to  show  all  men  that 
He  alone  was  the  ruler  of  the  earth.  Sternly  they  re¬ 
buked  Israel  for  their  sins — and  for  the  greatest  of  all 
their  sins — the  rejection  of  The  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 
They  said  that  now  the  end  of  the  age  was  at  hand ;  the 
days  of  rebellion,  sin,  and  wickedness  of  both  Jew  and 
Gentile  were  about  to  end;  that  The  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
was  coming — aye,  counting  from  this  day — in  three  years 
and  one-half  His  returning  feet  would  stand  on  Mount 
Olivet ;  that  now  in  spite  of  Israel’s  sins  and  wickedness, 
Jehovah  was  ready  and  willing  to  enter  into  a  covenant 
of  peace  with  them;  that  this  covenant  that  they  had  en¬ 
tered  into  with  the  wicked  King  of  Babylon  should  be 
immediately  annulled ;  that  this  wicked  Assyrian  who 
was  again  coming  to  Jerusalem  would  compel  them  to 
enter  into  a  new  “Covenant  with  hell  and  with  death.” 
And  woe  to  the  soul  who  accepted  such  a  compact.  There¬ 
fore,  let  the  rulers  and  people  of  Israel  put  away  their 
sins  and  wickedness — accept  the  gracious  love  of  Jeho¬ 
vah,  and  prepare  their  hearts  to  meet  with  joy  and 
thanksgiving  the  coming  Messiah  Christ  !  Now  who  is 
on  the  Lord’s  side — let  him  stand  with  us  and  fleeing 
from  the  coming  wrath  join  himself  to  those  who  love 
the  words  of  Jehovah. 

And  then  a  sudden  division.  Lo,  of  the  rulers,  one- 
third  sprang  forward  and  stood  by  the  side  of  the  Two 
Witnesses. 

And  the  other  two-thirds,  in  their  hearts,  and  wills,  and 
souls  rejected  the  testimony  of  the  Two  Witnesses.  They 


66 


THAT  JEW! 


raved  and  littered  threats  of  dire  vengeance  on  the  heads 
of  these  vile  traitors  when  the  Prince  of  Babylon  should 
come.  And  perchance  some  of  the  most  hardened,  reck¬ 
less  and  daring  did  not  hesitate  to  spring  to  do  a  deadly 
vengeance  on  the  Witnesses — poor  fools — only  to  perish 
and  become  a  little  heap  of  worthless  ashes.  And  the 
blinded  leaders  were  surely  no  laggards  to  wire  the  Prince 
of  Babylon — of  these  fell  traitors,  to  profess  anew  their 
loyalty  to  him,  beseeching  him  to  come  and  with  his 
presence  blast  such  fellows  from  the  earth. 

And  Jerusalem.  What  a  turmoil — a  rushing  to  and  fro 
in  the  city — business  suspended — for,  lo,  through  every 
street  went  the  Two  Witnesses,  proclaiming  the  message 
of  Jehovah:  That  Jehovah  Christ  was  coming  shortly 
to  crush  His  enemies  and  to  bless  those  who  made  their 
hearts  willing  and  ready  to  receive  Him  ;  that  Gentile 
supremacy  was  nearly  over;  that  Jehovah  indeed  was 
ready  to  pardon,  bless  and  draw  nigh  to  His  people ;  that 
indeed  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  was  at  hand.  And  woe 
to  the  soul  who  accepted  the  Prince  of  Babylon  as  the 
Messiah — woe  to  whosoever  bowed  to  him  the  knee, 
accepted  his  number  or  his  name  on  their  hand  or  fore¬ 
head — that  soul  would  be  accursed  of  Jehovah  forever 
and  forever ! 


THAT  JEW! 


67 


CHAPTER  VIII 

THE  MARK  OF  THE  BEAST 

Surely  Jerusalem  was  a  distracted  city.  Tumult  and 
bickering  held  high  revelry — a  divided  people — friend 
against  friend,  neighbor  against  neighbor,  husband  against 
wife,  child  against  parent — a  time  of  trouble  and  despair. 
Never  seemed  these  Two  Witnesses  to  tire — their  voices 
were  seldom  still,  the  tread  of  their  feet  was  heard  on 
every  street,  through  mart  of  traders,  and  where  house¬ 
holds  dwelt.  They  were  determined  that  every  ear  in 
Jerusalem  should  hear  their  message.  They  proclaimed 
that  the  hour  of  decision  was  close  at  hand — that  each 
listener  should  choose  for  a  master  either  Antichrist  or 
Jehovah  Christ;  that  already  Antichrist  was  on  his  way 
to  Jerusalem,  and  that  his  coming  would  strike  the  hour 
of  doom  for  all  who  should  acknowledge  him.  No  half¬ 
way  measures  now — men  and  women  must  swiftly  make 
up  their  minds.  There  would  be  no  neutral  ground — it 
was  Satan  or  Jehovah — which? 

The  dawning  of  the  day  of  decision  at  last  had  come. 
With  loud  acclamations  was  Antichrist  met  at  the  en¬ 
trance  of  the  city  of  Jerusalem.  In  pomp  and  majesty 
he  came — a  veritable  hero,  with  his  guards  and  attendants 
doing  him  divine  honors.  And  straightway  to  the  Tem¬ 
ple!  Perchance  it  was  the  hour  of  sacrifice,  and  on  the 
altar  lay  the  lamb,  lo,  he  dared  to  step  forward  before 
the  altar,  and  stand  there  to  receive  divine  honors.  His 
eloquent  and  subtle  prophet  thrust  aside  the  priests  at  the 
altar.  Water  perchance  was  poured  on  the  altar  to  quench 


68 


THAT  JEW! 


every  spark  and  vestige  of  fire — so  that  all  might  see 
that  this  prophet  had  power  to  bring  down  fire  from 
heaven  in  sight  of  all  men  and  burn  up  the  sacrifice. 

And  veritably,  as  the  prophet’s  hands  were  stretched 
out  to  the  Prince  of  Babylon,  as  if  entreating  him  to 
reveal  his  God-head,  fire  descended  from  heaven,  the 
forked  tongues  burning  up  the  wood  and  flesh  upon  the 
altar  in  the  sight  of  all  men.  Could  humanity  want 
more  ? 

And  then,  perchance,  the  place  around  about,  the  upper 
air,  was  full  of  voices,  strange  weird  voices  of  rejoicing 
from  unseen  thousands,  aye  millions,  that  crowded  round 
the  place.  Could  humanity  want  more?  Was  not  this 
indeed  the  God  whom  unseen  angel  hosts  adore?  And 
on  their  knees  in  adoration  fell  the  multitude,  in  their 
hearts  believing,  and  giving  him  divine  honors. 

And  then  the  preeminence  of  blasphemy!  This  new 
god  walked  towards  the  curtained  Holy  of  Holies,  rent 
the  gorgeous  curtains  with  his  impious  hands,  and  en¬ 
tered  the  place  where  only  the  high  priest  came  once  a 
year  bearing  shed  blood  in  his  hands.  Here  seated,  he 
proclaimed  himself  to  be  the  Lord  God  of  the  Earth,  and 
before  him  worshipped  the  thousands  gathered  there. 

It  was  very  noticeable  that  none  who  had  in  their 
hearts  hearkened  to  the  Two  Witnesses  were  present  at 
this  Temple  meeting.  Believing  the  words  of  Jevohah 
they  kept  away  with  fearful  and  trembling  hearts,  for 
scarce  a  one  of  this  remnant  but  had  some  relative,  some 
dear  one,  who,  alas,  went  forth  that  fatal  morning  with 
songs  of  joy  on  their  lips  to  meet  the  deceiver. 

And,  perchance,  seated  on  the  Mount  of  Olives  over 
against  the  city,  were  the  Two  Witnesses  with  a  stricken 
crowd  around  them,  watching  from  a  distance  the  strange 


THAT  JEW! 


69 

doings  in  the  city,  and  listening  to  the  wild  acclamations 
that  the  wind  brought  to  their  ears  from  the  Temple  Hill. 

This  was  the  day  of  the  Prince  of  Darkness,  and  the 
Two  Witnesses  for  the  present  would  stand  aside  and 
let  evil  blossom  to  its  baleful  prime. 

What  a  day  of  revelry  in  Jerusalem.  Music  and  danc¬ 
ing,  and  feasting  on  the  richest  meats  and  rarest  wines. 
For  this  Prince  of  Babylon  was  no  solemn,  sad-faced 
God.  The  merry  song,  the  questionable  jest,  the  broad 
story,  the  lascivious  look,  the  mad  desire,  the  plucking 
of  roses  from  lips  and  brow  of  beauty,  were  not  by  him 
foi  bidden.  Nay,  did  not  the  naked  women  of  his  train, 
garlanded  with  the  rarest  flowers,  dance  before  him,  with 
happy  songs,  on  the  marble  floor  of  the  temple  before 
the  Holy  of  Holies,  where  he  was  seated  on  a  throne  of 
blazing  jewels?  Did  they  not  proclaim  him  God— the 
Ruler  of  Heaven  and  Earth?  Did  not  this  singing  and 

dancing  give  the  wildest  liberty  to  the  vilest  passions  of 
men  and  women? 

And  the  city  that  night  was  ablaze  with  lights,  and 
mad  with  the  most  unbridled  riot  of  the  baser  passions. 
Wme  flowed  like  water ;  and  woe  to  the  person  who  joined 
not  in  this  excess,  for  this  new  God  proclaimed  that  by 
the  act  of  feasting,  drinking  and  liberty — they  wor¬ 
shipped  him  in  deed  and  in  truth ;  that  lasciviousness  and 
abandonment  to  the  most  domineering  of  human  passions 

were  the  highest  praises  and  service  they  could  render 
him. 

Hidden  in  cellars  and  caves  shrank  those  who  trem¬ 
bled  at  Gods  Word — who  believed  the  words  of  the 
Two  Witnesses. 

And  most  of  them,  perchance  on  that  Mount  of  Olivet, 
near  the  messengers  of  Jehovah,  crouched  all  night 


70 


THAT  JEW! 


on  the  cold,  chill  ground,  trembling  in  frame  and  heart, 
watching  the  brilliant  lights,  the  decorations  in  every 
street  and  house ;  they  could  see  the  wild  dancers  on  the 
Temple  floor ;  and  the  chill  night  wind  bore  to  their  ears 
the  voices,  songs  and  music  of  that  mad  revel.  They 
sat  there  in  sorrow,  in  anguish  and  bitterness  of  heart  for 
those  they  loved  in  that  mad  city.  Yet  with  this  bit¬ 
terness  came  to  their  hearts,  as  a  refreshing  wine,  the 
glorious  hope  which  thrilled  their  souls — the  coming  of 
their  Redeemer  and  King. 

But  for  the  present  the  Witnesses  could  give  them  lit¬ 
tle  earthly  comfort.  They  told  the  stricken  men  and 
women  that  this  was  the  hour  of  patience,  the  trial  of 
their  faith,  that  neither  by  sword  nor  fire  were  they  to 
oppose  the  Deceiver,  that  this  was  his  day — the  Day  of 
Satan’s  supreme  authority  on  earth.  And  then  the  words 
of  warning — Let  not  one  of  them  again  enter  the  city — 
let  no  affection,  duty,  nor  consideration  of  any  kind, 
human  or  earthly,  lead  back,  or  draw  their  footsteps  to 
these  streets,  or  to  their  former  homes,  in  Jerusalem.  Let 
their  feet  bear  them  to  the  wilds,  and  desert  places,  to 
the  caves,  and  fastnesses  of  the  mountains,  for  in  no 
other  way  could  they  be  saved.  Let  them  flee  in  faith, 
trusting  in  God,  let  no  heart  fail  among  them  for  in 
forsaking  this  city  Jehovah  would  indeed  be  their 
refuge,  and  bread  and  water  should  not  fail  them. 

And  so  with  the  breaking  of  the  morning  light  fugitives 
were  everywhere,  rushing  towards  the  mountains  and  the 
lonely  defiles,  hiding  in  ravines  and  caves,  seeking  the 
shelter  of  desolate  places. 

And  in  the  city  workshops  were  wondrous  doings — for 
workmen,  cunning  of  brain  and  hand,  wrought  in  gold 
and  precious  stones — until  their  eyes  flashed  a  glorious 


THAT  JEW! 


7 1 


image  of  the  New  God.  And  then,  with  awful  pomp 
and  glorious  magnificence,  with  all  Jerusalem  on  the 
housetops,  in  the  open  spaces,  and  temple  courts,  watch¬ 
ing  with  almost  unblinking  eyes,  this  image  was  placed 
on  the  highest  pinnacle  of  The  Temple.  Then  amid  the 
most  profound  silence,  and  almost  breathless  attention, 
men  and  women  heard  that  Image  speak.  For  lo,  this 
image  of  gold  and  precious  stones  had  life,  was  unmis¬ 
takably  endowed  with  palpitating  life;  and  it  proclaimed 
that  all  should  worship  it— the  Image  of  The  God— 
for  in  worshipping  the  Image  they  worshipped  their  God. 

And  on  that  day  went  forth  the  decree :  Every  being 
under  heaven  of  all  nations,  peoples  and  tongues— all 
should  worship  The  Man-God.  And  all— Both  rich  and 
poor,  both  small  and  great,  both  freeman  and  slave,  and 
bondman,  should  receive  a  mark  in  their  right  hands,  or 
in  their  foreheads :  and  that  no  man  might  buy  or  sell, 
save  he  that  had  the  mark,  or  the  name  of  The  Man-God| 
or  the  number  of  His  name. 


And  suddenly,  perchance,  across  the  heavens  floated 
One  of  magnificent  appearance— thundering  in  a  loud 
voice  so  that  every  one  in  the  city  could  hear: 

“If  any  man  worship  the  beast,  and  his  image,  and 
receive  his  mark  in  their  forehead,  or  in  his  hand,  the 
same  shall  drink  of  the  wine  of  the  wrath  of  God,  which 
is  poured  out  without  mixture  into  the  cup  of  His  in¬ 
dignation  ;  and  he  shall  be  tormented  with  fire  and  brim¬ 


stone  in  the  presence  of  the  holy  angels,  and  in  the  pres¬ 
ence  of  The  Lamb:  and  the  smoke  of  their  torment 
ascendeth  up  for  ever  and  ever :  and  they  have  no  rest 
day  nor  night  who  worship  the  Beast  and  his  image, 
and  who-so-ever  receiveth  the  mark  of  his  name.” 

For  a  little  time  the  hearts  of  that  mighty  multitude 


72 


THAT  JEW! 


were  stricken  with  fear — and  a  shrinking  in  brain  and 
heart  from  the  worship  of  this  Man-God.  But  the  day 
of  Satan  had  come — this  human  multitude  was  in  the 
toils  of  this  Satanic  Trinity. 

Perchance  suddenly,  from  all  sides,  from  the  earth 
beneath,  from  the  heavens  above,  came  mighty  thunder- 
ings,  the  voices  of  unseen  millions  shouting  the  praises 
of  this  Man-God.  Men’s  hearts  were  opened  to  the  un¬ 
mistakable  fact  that  around  them  were  unseen  powers, 
creatures  whose  voices  knew  no  other  theme  than  songs 
to  the  praise  of  The  Man-God. 

And  then,  perchance,  the  hint  of  one  of  the  students 
of  the  word  became  a  veritable  fact :  What  if  unseen 
hands  uplifted  the  sparkling  throne  where  The  Man-God 
was  seated !  What  if  it  were  borne  aloft  by  these  unseen 
hands,  up,  up,  above  the  highest  pinnacle  of  the  temple, 
above  the  image,  so  that  every  eye  in  Jerusalem  and  the 
surrounding  country  saw  the  throne  of  the  Man-God  in 
the  air,  and  heard  the  thunders  of  the  voices  of  unseen 
beings — crying  out — all  hail  and  glory  and  honor  to  their 
God,  the  ruler  of  the  earth  and  the  coming  ruler  of 
heaven.  What  if  there,  suspended  in  the  air,  this  Man- 
God  challenged  Jehovah  and  His  Risen  Christ  to  show 
their  power,  to  crush  Him  if  they  dared !  And  unseen 
hands  bore  him  back  to  earth!  Could  humanity  ask 
more? 

Truly,  in  Jerusalem  that  day  there  was  a  hissing,  seeth¬ 
ing  and  branding  of  flesh — a  strange  smell  in  the  air — 
for  all  were  too  glad  to  give  him  allegiance:  men  and 
women  of  all  classes  and  conditions  were  rejoicing  in  the 
sufferings  that  this  fiery  baptism  of  the  flesh  gave  to 
them,  in  their  willing  worship  and  compliance  to  his 
wishes. 


THAT  JEW! 


73 


And  not  to  the  Jew  alone — but  to  the  Gentile  in  their 
gates — and  woe,  thrice  woe,  to  any  one  who  hesitated  to 
receive  the  mark.  The  guillotine  stood  ready  to  decapi¬ 
tate,  the  sword  ready  to  slay. 

So  Jerusalem  after  another  night  of  revelry,  of  music, 
of  feasting,  of  drinking,  and  vilest  debauchery — tired 
out,  as  the  night  shadows  were  lifted  from  the  coming 
morning,  lay  down  in  drunken  sleep,  branded  one  and 
all  with  the  mark  of  the  Man-God, 


74 


THAT  JEW ! 


CHAPTER  IX 

THAT  JEW! 

That  Jew ! 

What  Jew? 

There  is  only  one  Jew — The  Christ  Jew — and  we 
will  not  have  this  Jew  reign  over  us ! 

For  the  hate  of  Jehovah  and  His  Christ,  spawned 
in  Babylon,  cradled  in  Rome,  and  raised  to  manhood  in 
Paris,  shall  at  last  hiss  to  High  Heaven  its  challenge  and 
defiance. 

We  see  once  again  the  Old  Roman  Empire  standing 
out  in  terrible  boldness — her  ancient  landmarks  may  be 
traced — and  again  the  two  divisions,  the  Eastern  and  the 
Western. 

We  see  Europe  divided  into  ten  portions,  five  king¬ 
doms  in  the  Western,  five  kingdoms  in  the  Eastern  divi¬ 
sion.  The  Empire  of  the  Great  Alexander  of  Macedonia 
stands  out  as  of  old  in  its  four  divisions — from  Greece 
to  the  great  river,  the  river  Euphrates — and  in  this  divi¬ 
sion,  four  of  the  kingdoms  have  for  centuries  cried,  We 
will  not  have  this  Jew  to  reign  over  us.  The  fifth  king¬ 
dom  in  its  broken  fragments  has  worshipped  a  Woman 
and  Child — a  superstition  conceived  of  by  Satan  in  Baby¬ 
lon  long  ages  ago ;  the  woman  and  child — rechristened 
Mary  and  Jesus — being  worshipped  with  the  very  rites 
and  ceremonies  taken  from  Babylon. 

In  the  Western  division  we  have  seen  Rome  dominant 
— the  Babylonish  mother  and  child  honored  by  the  state 


THAT  JEW! 


7i 


on  every  altar,  in  every  nation — except  one.  The  early 
modern  students  of  the  Word,  who  had  studied  the  spirit 
of  Jesus  Christ,  for  the  Spirit  of  Prophecy  is  the  spirit 
of  Christ,  had  hopes  that  England  and  Scotland,  who 
held  up  an  open  Bible,  and  sent  forth  missionaries,  her¬ 
alds  of  the  Cross,  to  every  land,  would  not  be  held  in 
the  Satanic  covenant  of  hell  and  of  death.  But,  alas, 
students  of  God’s  Word  can  now  see  that  there  is  no 
foundation  for  such  hope — can  see  that  England  is  ripen¬ 
ing  fast  to  a  readiness  for  the  worship  of  the  Antichrist 
when  his  day  comes.  The  established  church  is  fast 
dividing  into  two  seemingly  hostile  camps.  Already  the 
sowing  of  the  seed  of  Satan  by  Newman  and  Pusey,  the 
watering  of  it  by  Gladstone  and  Salisbury  by  the  appoint¬ 
ment  of  men  to  the  bishops’  sees,  who  were  bound  heart 
and  soul  by  Roman  superstition — has  produced  a  harvest 
of  superstition — myriads  of  followers  after  one  of  the 
masterpieces  of  Satan. 

In  the  other  camp  we  see  a  Kingsley,  a  Maurice,  an 
Arnold,  a  Stanley,  a  Jowet,  a  Driver,  a  Cheyne,  casting 
discredit  on  the  entire  Word  of  God.  We  see  independ¬ 
ent  churches  aping  the  established  church.  We  see  the 
term  “Scholar !” — the  prize  held  out  by  Satan  to  all  who 
will  join  the  ranks  of  this  hyper-criticism.  We  see  the 
Free  Church  of  Scotland  blasted  by  a  Robertson  Smith, 
a  George  Adam  Smith,  and  a  hundred  other  such  deceiv¬ 
ers  of  men,  who,  sucking  the  virus  of  disease  from  Ger¬ 
man  corpses,  have  polluted  the  good  blood  of  Scotland, 
and  made  the  Church  of  Scotland  a  nest  of  vipers  of  the 
foulest  kind. 

Surely  readers  of  God’s  Word  stand  with  amazement 
as  they  see  the  hyper-critic’s  vast  citadel  of  unbelief,  a 
most  imposing  structure,  built  on  the  most  flimsy  founda- 


76 


THAT  JEW! 


tions;  every  critic  full  of  personal  vanity,  questioning  for 
himself  this  passage  and  that  passage  of  Holy  Writ,  until 
there  is  hardly  a  verse  or  statement  not  disbelieved  in  by 
some  one  of  these  Godless  men.  Surely  Satan  never 
fooled  a  lot  of  men — so-called  learned  men — more  easy 
than  these  hyper-critics.  Without  rhyme  or  reason,  sim¬ 
ply  by  their  verifying  faculty,  they  pronounce  judgment 
on  the  authorship  of  every  book  in  the  Bible.  Nothing 
shows  so  clearly  the  delusion  of  Satan  (the  strong  delu¬ 
sion  that  God  said,  He  would  let  fall  on  men  who  would 
not  have  His  truth)  as  this  same  higher  criticism. 

So  men  came  to  look  on  the  Bible  as  a  book  of  Jewish 
lies,  a  mingling  of  error  with  some  little  truth.  These 
hyper-critics  loudly  said:  We  will  not  have  this  Jew 
Christ  in  the  Old  Testament.  Then  they  went  a  step 
forward,  they  disowned  the  right  of  the  apostles  to  speak 
with  authority,  and  then  denied  that  Christ  said  this  or 
that,  until  His  God-head  was  driven  from  the  New  Tes¬ 
tament,  and  common  men  and  women  would  have  no 
more  curtailment  of  their  passions  and  pleasures  by  That 
Jew  ! 

And  so  when  came  the  time  of  God’s  withdrawal  of 
His  Holy  Spirit  from  the  minds  of  men,  the  Romanist 
and  hyper-critic,  both  despisers  of  the  Word  of  God, 
joined  hands,  and  welcomed  the  most  wonderful  of  all 
Satanic  devices  to  blind  the  human  soul. 

For  there  is  no  disputing  the  fact,  that  the  preaching 
of  the  Gospel  in  Continental  Europe  has  been  a  gigantic 
failure.  European  Paganism  put  on  a  thin  coating  of 
Christianity,  but  the  multitudes  were  still  Pagans.  The 
rule  of  Christ  was  not  known  where  Catholicism  held 
sway.  The  rule  of  Christ  is  based  on  love,  and  Conti¬ 
nental  Europe  as  a  mass  feared,  and  in  their  heart  of 


THAT  JEW! 


77 


hearts  hated  The  Christ,  that  Jew  God!  The  thought 
has  ever  been  repellant  to  the  unregenerated  Gentile 
mind.  That  Jew — a  God! 

It  was  this  very  thought  that,  perchance,  unconsciously 
whetted  with  hatred  the  wit  and  sarcasm  of  Voltaire, 
Renan,  Strauss,  and  scores  of  other  writers.  And  now 
Continental  Europe  had  surely  enough  of  this  Jew  Ques¬ 
tion — and  more  than  enough  of  that  Jew  God!  Why 
should  that  Jew’s  opinions  be  a  guide  to  us,  be  a  stern 
command  driving  us  from  the  pleasures  of  life — standing 
between  us  and  all  the  joys  that  make  up  the  sum  of  days 
of  pleasure  upon  the  earth.  The  passions  revel  with 
thoughts  of  the  dance  of  Venus,  of  the  kisses,  of  the  em¬ 
braces,  while  ever  that  pale  Jew  God  stands  with  frown¬ 
ing  face,  with  upraised  hand,  with  His  pictures  of  hell- 
fire,  and  His  everlasting,  Thou  shalt  not! 

Away  with  such  a  pestilent  fellow  from  the  earth ! 
Away  from  our  thoughts !  We  will  be  free  men,  uncon¬ 
trolled,  unfettered  by  this  cobweb — the  thought — “*tis 
sin!” 

And  so  when  Babylon  arose  from  her  grave — and 
when  she  became  the  heart,  the  mart  of  all  the  nations 
of  the  earth — her  prince  became  the  ideal  ruler  in 
Europe !  Under  his  peaceful  sway,  there  was  no  hunger, 
no  nakedness;  but  bread,  and  meat,  and  beer,  for  every 
toiler  in  Babylon.  His  name  was  on  every  lip,  his  praise 
upon  many  million  tongues — " There  was  none  like  him, 
none!” 

And  so  burdened  by  the  crushing  weight  of  providing 
money  for  armament  on  sea  and  land,  the  people  arose 
and  confusion  filled  Europe.  Anarchy  would  have  tri¬ 
umphed  but  for  this  prince  of  Babylon.  He  spoke  and 
Europe  listened.  He  brought  order  from  disorder.  He 


THAT  JEW! 


78 

became  the  arbitrator  of  Europe.  Ten  kings  ruled  the 
old  Roman  earth— the  clay  could  not  escape  from  con¬ 
tact  with  the  iron,  thus  forming  a  limited  monarchy.  And 
every  king  had  to  take  the  prince  of  Babylon  for  his  pat¬ 
tern.  When  he  showed  his  first  inclinations  for  con¬ 
quest  and  three  kingdoms  acknowledged  him  their  king, 
Europe  mistrusted  him  not,  but  they  rather  delighted  in 
his  conquest.  And  then  came  the  thought — and  it  swiftly 
ran  from  people  to  people,  from  nation  to  nation,  from 
tongue  to  tongue — Let  him  be  the  Caesar. 

So  when  he  left  the  Holy  Land  to  accept  the  invitation 
pressed  on  him  by  every  European  capital,  the  Europeans 
by  ballot  and  wild  acclamation  accepted  him  as  the  Man 
God.  They  were  ready  to  accept  the  Devil’s  lie — the 
grace  of  God  had  been  withdrawn — the  mighty  miracles 
wrought  by  the. prophet  in  the  Man-God’s  presence  con¬ 
vinced  the  most  skeptical  that  here  was  no  trick,  no  fraud, 
but  a  power  whose  acts  stood  wonderful  before  all. 

Then  over  Europe  came  the  branding  of  man,  woman 
and  child,  and  certain  death  to  the  person  who  would  not 
comply.  All  Europe  had  turned  from  that  Jew  God,  His 
temples  and  altars  were  desecrated  and  set  ablaze — the 
most  stately  churches  of  Roman  worship  destroyed.  The 
Bible  was  a  hated  book,  every  copy  that  hate  could  put 
a  hand  on  was  destroyed — the  wish,  the  desire  to  blot 
the  name  of  Christ  from  the  world  became  the  ruling 
passion  of  millions.  And  woe  to  the  Christian,  hated, 
hunted  as  a  beast  of  prey;  no  hiding  place  too  deep,  too 
dark,  too  miserable,  but  it  should  be  searched.  Without 
the  mark  on  hand  or  forehead  none  could  trade,  nor  buy 
food,  drink,  or  clothes.  The  guillotine,  the  cross,  the 
gibbet,  the  wild  beast  den,  had  plenty  to  whet  their  appe¬ 
tites.  Was  there  a  hill  in  Europe  that  did  not  bear  on 


THAT  JEW! 


79 

its  crest  mangled  bones,  the  deadly  fruit  of  Antichristian 
hate  ? 

At  first  a  silent  Heaven :  Neither  Jehovah  nor  His 
Christ  seemed  to  take  heed  of  this  revolt.  Their  names 
seemed  blotted  from  the  Roman  earth. 

Their  only  known  representative  being  the  Two  Wit¬ 
nesses  in  Palestine,  and  they  stretched  not  forth  a  single 
hand  to  do  this  Man-God  aught  of  ill.  They  did  not  force 
themselves  into  his  presence.  Were  they  not  afraid? 
And  so  supreme  stood  the  Man-God,  going  from  capital 
to  capital  of  Europe,  everywhere  demanding,  and  receiv¬ 
ing  Divine  honors.  A  silent  God,  a  silent  Christ,  a  silent 
Heaven,  with  Satan’s  right  to  rule  disputed  only  in  that 
place — from  whence  came  all  human  misery — Jerusalem  ! 

Then  arose  the  thought,  The  Jew ,  ever  a  stumbling 
block  to  the  world,  why  not  destroy  him  from  the  face 
of  the  earth t 


8o 


THAT  JEW! 


CHAPTER  X 

THE  DEATH  OF  THE  WITNESSES 

And  suddenly  up  loomed  the  old,  old  question,  that 
Jew  Question,  in  the  face  of  all  Europe — aye,  in  the  face 
of  all  the  world.  For  strange  stories  came  from  this  Jew¬ 
ish  land,  and  strange  events  were  happening  in  Jerusalem. 
In  spite  of  the  rich  Jewish  rulers’  attempts  to  keep  the 
matter  hidden,  giving  it  out  as  a  very  small  thing ;  in  spite 
of  the  suppression  of  news,  the  fact  soon  became  apparent 
that  treason  and  rebellion  were  rampant  in  Jerusalem. 
From  different  parts  of  the  World,  attracted  as  moths 
to  the  light,  came  Jews,  who  had  heard  of  the  procla¬ 
mation  of  the  Two  Witnesses.  For  these  turbulent  men, 
whoever  they  were,  had  strange  powers.  They  walked 
through  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land,  fearlessly 
proclaiming  the  Coming  of  the  Kingdom,  warning  the 
sons  of  Israel  not  to  bow  to,  nor  receive  the  mark,  nor 
number,  of  the  Antichrist. 

And  it  was  noticeable,  in  spite  of  the  fury  of  the  Anti- 
christians  against  such,  that  their  followers  grew  and 
waxed  strong — the  very  rabble  of  the  land  stood  up  as 
their  followers.  The  land  was  full  of  traitors !  Could  it 
be  believed  that  fully  one-third  of  the  population  of  the 
land  was  in  both  secret  and  open  rebellion  against  the 
Man-God — the  darling  of  the  human  heart — whom 
Europe  worshipped  ? 

And  then  strange  wonders  happened.  These  Two  Wit¬ 
nesses  had  power  to  turn  water  into  blood,  so  that  terrible 
sufferings  came  on  all  the  land,  more  especially  on  the 
cities. 


THAT  JEW! 


81 


Then  where  the  rains?  These  Two  Witnesses  had 
declared  that  the  rain  should  be  held  back  for  a  certain 
space.  They  were  laughed  at  and  mocked,  yet,  withal, 
the  rain  came  not.  And  the  seed  rotted  in  the  ground, 
and  the  grass  grew  scant,  and  plant  life  shriveled,  and 
vines  were  blasted  and  blighted ;  the  olive  trees  withered, 
and  the  trees  of  the  forest  became  as  dead,  dried  twigs. 
With  such  news  as  this  throughout  the  world,  the  prayer 
became  almost  universal  to  the  Man-God  to  destroy  these 
destroyers  of  human  happiness. 

And  then  he  put  forth  his  pressure  on  the  rulers  of 
Israel,  and  because  they  could  not  stay  this  rebellion, 
this  insult  to  his  name,  this  blot  on  his  Godhead,  he  laid 
on  them  heavy  burdens.  Their  gold  paid  the  price  of 
their  want  of  loyalty — he  oppressed  them  so  that  the 
rich  rulers’  lives  became  very  bitter  indeed. 

And  sore  perplexed  were  the  rulers.  They  had  done, 
without  avail,  all  that  human  could  do,  but  how  could 
the  human  battle  with  the  supernatural?  For  it  became 
apparent  to  all  Israel  that  the  Two  Witnesses  were  more 
than  human.  And  so  they  cried  for  the  Man-God  to  come 
to  their  aid  again.  He  did,  and  then  commenced  the  dark¬ 
est  hour  of  Jacob’s  trouble.  His  cruelty  to  the  Jewish 
rulers  knew  no  bounds.  No  matter  how  long  and  loud 
they  cried  Hosanna  to  his  Godship,  they  could  no  longer 
blind  themselves  to  the  fact  that  he  hated  them  with 
an  unappeased  hatred.  Day  and  night  his  hand  was 
heavy  upon  them.  His  words,  ofttimes  sweeter  than 
honey,  became  more  bitter  than  the  poison  of  asps.  Day 
by  day  he  became  more  oppressive,  more  domineering, 
more  unreasonable  in  his  demands,  until  the  rulers  and 
rich  men  of  Israel  knew  that  he  was  encompassing  them 
with  cruelty  and  death.  Now  they  acknowledged,  but 


82 


THAT  JEW! 


alas,  too  late,  that  they  had  indeed  made  a  covenant  with 
hell  and  with  death. 

But  yet,  in  spite  of  all  his  malice  and  hate,  a  remnant 
of  the  Jews  would  not  acknowledge  Him.  They  were,  to 
be  sure,  of  the  lowest,  poorest  of  the  city  and  the  land, 
but  somehow  his  hate  was  ever  baffled  as  to  their  destruc¬ 
tion.  They  found  a  refuge  somehow,  they  wanted  not 
water  nor  bread,  even  now  that  the  most  cruel  and  bitter 
famine  was  in  the  land.  The  land  became  a  very  desert, 
for  the  blessing  of  rain  was  withheld. 

The  land  and  the  people  became  a  burden  to  the  Man- 
God.  All  the  oppression  that  Satanic  ingenuity  could 
conceive  of  were  laid  upon  these  people — they  were  ruth¬ 
lessly  robbed,  and  slaughtered,  and  covered  with  all  sorts 
of  infamy,  until  they  cursed  their  king  and  their  God ! 
Their  lives  were  very  bitter,  and  mourning  filled  the  city 
and  the  land.  Fain  would  the  Antichrist  blot  them  from 
the  earth,  for  here  he  stood  baffled  before  humanity.  He 
was  utterly  powerless  in  the  matter  of  slaying  the  Wit¬ 
nesses,  or  in  destroying  the  remnant.  He  could  see  that/ 
he  had  full  power  to  torture,  to  slay  the  Jews  that  knelt 
to  him  in  worship,  but  there  was  a  remnant  that  he  could 
not  destroy. 

But  at  last  he  boasted  that  on  a  certain  day  he  would 
most  certainly  slay  the  Two  Witnesses.  And  to  see  this 
event  every  kingdom  of  the  world  was  invited  to  send 
ambassadors  to  Jerusalem,  for  on  a  certain  day  the  world 
should  see  the  end  of  these  traitors — the  destroyers  and 
disturbers  of  human  happiness. 

Shall  we  be  wrong  in  saying  that  Jerusalem  had  never 
seen  such  a  gathering?  The  great  ones  of  the  earth  were 
there.  The  world  stood,  as  it  were,  on  tiptoe,  awaiting 
that  hour. 

And  around  the  world  went  the  electric  spark — the 


THAT  JEW! 


83 


anxious,  listening  nations  heard,  and  from  millions  of 
lips  rang  forth  triumphant  shouts  of  victory.  A  univer¬ 
sal  joy,  a  universal  holiday,  when  the  world  heard  that 
the  Man-God  had  slain  the  Two  Witnesses.  Unbridled 
rejoicing,  and  unbounded  praise  to  the  Man-God. 

At  last  Jehovah  was  conquered.  He  was  driven  from 
the  earth.  The  heavens  gave  no  showing  of  His  wrath. 
This  tribal  Jewish  God  and  His  Christ  were  dead ! 

“And  they  that  dwell  upon  the  earth  shall  rejoice  over 
them  and  make  merry,  and  shall  send  gifts  one  to  another ; 
because  these  two  prophets  tormented  them  that  dwelt 
on  the  earth.” 

A  silent  heaven  for  three  and  one-half  days.  “And 
their  dead  bodies  shall  lie  in  the  street  of  the  Great  City, 
which  spiritually  is  called  Sodom  and  Egypt,  where  also 
Our  Lord  was  crucified.  And  they  of  the  people,  and 
kindreds  and  tongues,  and  nations  shall  see  their  dead 
bodies  three  days  and  one-half,  and  shall  not  suffer  their 
dead  bodies  to  be  put  in  their  graves.” 

And  surely  not  a  nation,  nor  people  of  the  Roman 
earth  but  sent  representatives  to  that  sight  in  Jerusalem. 
Every  flag  in  Europe  floated  over  the  great  ones  of  every 
nation.  And  never  before  was  such  a  volume  of  praise ; 
such  divine  honors  paid  to  the  Man-God. 

And  it  is  probable  that  he  had  summoned  his  ten  kings, 
who  reigned  over  Europe  under  him,  to  come  to  Jerusa¬ 
lem  and  behold  for  themselves  the  dead  bodies  of  the  Two 
Witnesses.  For  this  was  surely  the  supreme  moment  of 
his  glory,  the  hour  of  his  unclouded  fame,  for  over  the 
Roman  earth  what  tongue  might  wag  but  in  praise  of 
him?  Even  this  Jewish  remnant  had  vanished,  crest¬ 
fallen  and  dismayed,  to  their  secret  hiding  places. 

And  as  the  ten  kings  gazed  there,  and  Antichrist  stood 
supreme,  the  acknowledged  God  of  all,  what  is  this f 


84 


THAT  JEW! 


Suddenly  a  voice  from  the  heavens  above,  dropping 
down  from  the  bright  Syrian  sky,  said: 

“Come  up  hither!” 

Lo,  suddenly  life  came  into  the  dead  bodies;  as  men 
awakened  from  sleep,  the  Witnesses  arose  to  their  feet, 
and  slowly  they  ascended  heavenward  in  a  cloud. 

What  fear  !  What  consternation  !  What  dismay  !  With 
what  breathless  silence  their  enemies  beheld  them  grow¬ 
ing  less  and  less  in  the  clear  azure  of  heaven.  Every 
eye  strained — aye,  more  than  a  million  eyes  beheld  their 
ascension. 

And  then,  horror  of  horrors,  zvhat  was  this ?  The 
ground  swayed  and  heaved  beneath  their  feet !  Every 
heart  was  stricken  with  a  terrible  fear ;  and  lo,  the  walls 
of  the  house  were  rocking  to  and  fro,  bending  as  trees 
shaken  by  a  mighty  wind.  Then  the  deafening  crash  of 
buildings,  cries  of  horror  in  every  street,  frantic  cries, 
bitter  wails,  the  last  shriek  of  the  dead,  the  moan  of  the 
wounded.  A  blind  rush  of  human  beings,  as  of  wild 
animals,  to  escape  this  awful  place — for  what  would  not 
this  Jehovah  and  His  Christ  do ! 

And  surely  this  Jerusalem  must  be  a  cursed  spot  for 
Gentile  feet.  With  terror  at  heart,  and  curses  on  their 
lips,  that  wild  rabble  of  sight-seeing  Gentiles  fled,  reck¬ 
oning  not  if  they  trampled  beneath  their  feet  the  dearest 
and  nearest  ones  on  earth. 

Surely  in  a  little  time  the  crestfallen  Man-God  found 
himself  borne  out  of  that  city,  and  not  a  Gentile  foot 
stood  in  Jerusalem. 

Surely  on  the  plain  below  he  turned  and  shook  his  hand 
at  the  towers  of  Jerusalem.  He  would  wash  this  defeat 
out  in  Jewish  blood,  and  leave  not  one  stone  upon  another 
to  tell  where  Jerusalem  had  been. 


THAT  JEW! 


85 


CHAPTER  XI 

TIDINGS  FROM  THE  EAST 

And  now  as  the  silence  of  Heaven  was  broken,  the 
arrows  of  Jehovah’s  anger  fell  thick  and  fast  upon  a 
world  and  had  scorned  Him  and  His  Christ— had  de¬ 
fied  them  and  worshipped  Antichrist. 

“Tidings  out  of  the  East  and  out  of  the  North  troubled 
him." 

And  well  they  might,  for  news  came  that  the  Barbaric 
Tribes  of  Asia,  “The  Yellow  Peril,”  were  coming 
against  his  golden  city  of  Babylon,  to  plunder  and  to 
sack.  And  then  his  defeat  by  these  cursed  Jews,  in  the 
face  of  the  world,  maddened  him  beyond  expression, 
for  although  the  Jews  were  not  the  instrument,  still  he 
coupled  Jehovah  and  the  Jews  together.  And  now  his 
vengeance  should  be  terrible.  He  determined  that  every 
Jew  in  his  dominion  should  perish,  and  the  purpose  of 
a  former  Roman  Caesar  came  to  his  mind — to  erase 
Jerusalem  and  run  the  plowshare  across  her  ruins. 

First  these  barbarians  must  be  checked,  and  forthwith 
rang  the  command  to  all  Europe:  “To  the  rescue  of 
Babylon!”  And  Europe  rose  as  if  one  man.  “To  arms, 
to  arms,”  was  the  cry  of  man  and  woman ;  aye,  and  let 
it  be  remembered  that  the  Jews,  and  Jerusalem  the  hated, 
stood  between  Europe  and  the  barbarians.  Let  there¬ 
fore  the  swollen  angry  tide  of  humanity  roll  across  Pales¬ 
tine  like  a  devastating  flood,  wrecking  with  pillage  and 
slaughter,  leaving  not  a  babe  behind,  much  less  a  man  or 
woman ! 


86 


THAT  JEW! 


So  Europe  resounded  with  the  clash  of  arms,  the  gath¬ 
ering  of  hosts.  The  war  vessels  and  transports  were 
crowded  with  warriors.  Merchant  vessels,  fast  steamers, 
were  given  readily,  or  seized  on  ruthlessly,  for  warriors 
must  be  landed  on  the  coast  of  Palestine. 

And  as  there  was  little  chance  of  freightage  for  a  mixed 
multitude,  either  by  vessel  or  rail,  a  second  crusade  called 
forth  men  and  women  in  one  indescribable  mass,  who 
would  in  their  hate  of  the  Jew  walk  to  Palestine.  Europe 
was  moving,  and  Palestine  was  the  place  of  gathering. 
Millions  on  millions  were  on  their  way  for  vengeance. 

“He  shall  plant  the  tabernacle  of  his  palace  between 
the  seas” :  and  here  he  awaited  his  coming  hosts.  Such 
armaments  as  these  were  never  seen  before  by  mortal 
man.  His  heart  swelled  with  haughty  pride. 

And  was  not  Russia  gathering  her  forces?  Like  a 
sullen  thunder  cloud  she  hung,  blackening  all  the  north¬ 
ern  horizon,  falcon  like  to  swoop  down  at  any  moment 
on  the  prey — for  the  loss  of  Constantinople  and  Asiatic 
Turkey  was  as  a  thorn  in  her  side.  She  surely  meditated 
a  descent  on  the  new  Roman  Empire. 

Yet  what  was  this ? 

The  city  of  his  pride,  his  Babylon,  was  surely  in  the 
toils  of  Jehovah  ! 

A  noisome ,  horrible  sore  had  fallen  on  its  inhabitants ; 
and  science  stood  aghast,  unable  to  give  relief !  Then 
the  plague  of  blood;  the  sea  became  so  stagnant  that  ves¬ 
sels  could  make  no  headway  on  its  tideless  waters. 

Then  the  rivers  were  stricken,  they  and  the  fountains 
of  waters  were  turned  to  blood,  and  a  terrible  thirst 
slaughtered  its  thousands. 

Then  a  plague  of  heat — so  hot  became  the  atmosphere 
of  Babylon,  that  its  inhabitants  were  scorched  as  if  by 


THAT  JEW ! 


87 


fire,  scorched  with  a  great  heat,  so  that  their  sufferings 
were  terrible  beyond  expression.  Not  a  plant  nor  tree 
escaped  this  plague.  Babylon  stood  on  a  plain,  barren, 
blasted  and  desolate  so  far  as  verdure  was  concerned. 

Then  came  a  terrible  darkness — so  that  the  inhabitants 
gnawed  their  tongues  for  pain. 

And  then  tidings  of  a  still  more  dreadful  character 
reached  his  ears :  The  zvater  of  His  river ,  the  great  river u 
the  river  Euphrates,  had  suddenly  dried  up.  Babylon  was 
cut  off  from  the  sea;  commerce  had  received  a  deadly 
blow ;  and  this  gave  a  free  passage  way  to  the  Barbarian 
Hosts,  who,  alas,  were  already  at  the  skirts  of  Babylon, 
ready  to  devour  her. 

“ One  post  shall  run  to  meet  another,  and  one  messen¬ 
ger  to  meet  another,  to  shove  the  King  of  Babylon  that 
his  city  is  taken.” 

“The  mighty  men  of  Babylon  have  forborne  to  fight, 
they  have  remained  to  their  holds ;  their  might  hath 
failed;  they  became  as  women;  they  have  burned  her 
dwelling  places ;  her  bars  are  broken.  They  (the  Asiatic 
Hosts)  shall  hold  the  bow  and  the  lance;  they  are  cruel 
and  will  not  show  mercy;  their  voices  shall  roar  as  the 
sea,  and  they  shall  ride  upon  horses,  every  one  in  battle 
array,  like  a  man  to  the  battle,  againt  thee,  O  Daughter 
of  Babylon.” 

“The  King  of  Babylon  hath  heard  the  report  of  them 
and  his  hands  waxed  feeble:  anguish  took  hold  of  him, 
and  pangs  as  of  a  woman  in  travail.” 

“Behold,  he  shall  come  up  like  a  lion  from  the  swelling 

Jordan.” 

For  surely  then  revenge  was  in  every  fiber  of  his 
soul.  Restless,  nervous,  waiting,  waiting  for  the  arma¬ 
ments  of  Europe,  which  were  even  then  in  sight  of  the 


88 


THA  T  JEW! 


coast.  In  a  few  hours  the  ships  would  be  unloading  their 
myriads  of  armed  men.  Alas !  too  late  to  save  Babylon, 
but  not  too  late  for  vengeance  of  the  direst  kind  to  the 
bitter  end — both  on  Jew  and  Barbarian.  And  now  what 
was  that ? 

The  black  hand  of  Jehovah  had  shattered  the  glory 
and  the  beauty  of  the  world. 

An  earthquake  had  destroyed  Babylon ;  not  a  building 
left  standing;  all  was  in  ruins;  and  her  gorgeous  palaces, 
store  houses,  and  dwelling  houses,  were  wrapped  in  fire 
and  smoke — for  as  God  overthrew  Sodom  and  Gomorrah 
with  fire,  so  had  He  destroyed  Babylon. 

“At  the  noise  of  the  taking  of  Babylon  the  earth  is 
moved  and  the  cry  is  heard  among  the  nations !” 

The  Greatest  Exchanges  in  the  world  were  thrown 
into  utter  confusion ;  the  money  markets  were  paralyzed ; 
ruin  stared  men  in  the  face ;  men  who  were  millionaires 
in  the  morning  were  beggars  at  evening,  for  uher  traders 
were  princes,  the  great  men  of  the  earth  were  her 
merchantmen.” 

This  sudden  destruction  of  commercial  values  most 
appalling;  every  trader,  the  round  world  over,  felt  its 
effects.  And  this  maddened  Europe  to  its  center — one 
thought  alone  seemed  to  fill  every  soul ;  hatred  to  Jeho¬ 
vah,  who  had  done  this  deed,  for  there  was  none  but 
could  see  the  hand  mightier  than  that  of  a  man  laid  in 
destructive  power,  shattering  the  glory  of  Babylon. 

And  God  allowed  Satan  to  open  the  bottomless  pit,  to 
unloose  the  myriad  of  demons  bound  in  the  river 
Euphrates :  and  He  allowed  this  evil  host  to  possess  the 
Roman  Empire ;  to  enter  into  humanity,  man,  and 
woman ;  and  so  permitted  the  strong  delusion  to  work 
their  everlasting  ruin.  Men  and  women  were  mad  enough 


THAT  JEW! 


89 


to  dream  that  by  the  aid  of  Satan  and  his  many  millions 
of  spirits  they  could  battle  with  Jehovah — and  conquer 
Him.  So  the  hosts  of  maddened  men,  alas  women  also, 
rushing  across  Europe,  coming  from  all  corners  and  cen¬ 
ters  of  Europe  to  meet  on  Palestine,  were  demon  led. 

At  last  the  armed  men  landed  on  the  beach  by  thou¬ 
sands,  tens  of  thousands,  aye  millions.  At  last  Antichrist 
was  once  more  surrounded  by  his  ten  kings,  the  hour  of 
his  vengeance  was  at  hand.  The  plains  and  valleys  and 
mountains  of  Israel  were  covered  by  blaspheming,  armed, 
trained  men  of  war,  who  were  only  too  eager  for  the 
conflict.  At  last  he  moved  forward  in  sullen  pride. 

“He  is  come  to  Aiath,  he  is  passed  to  Migron;  at  Mich- 
mash  he  hath  laid  up  his  carriages:  they  are  gone  over 
the  passage:  they  have  taken  up  their  lodgings  at  Geha: 
Radmah  is  afraid:  Gibeah  of  Saul  is  fled.  Lift  up  thy 
voice ,  0  Daughter  of  Gilliam:  cause  it  to  be  heard  unto 
Laish ,  0  poor  Anathoth.  Madmenah  is  removed:  the 
inhabitants  of  Gebim  gather  themselves  to  flee.” 

“As  yet  shall  he  remain  at  Nob  that  day:  he  shall  shake 
his  hand  against  the  mount  of  the  daughter  of  Zion,  the 
Hill  of  Jerusalem.” 

“Yet  He  shall  come  to  his  end  and  none  shall  help 
him!” 

“Woe  to  the  multitude  of  many  people,  which  make 
a  noise  like  the  noise  of  the  seas :  and  to  the  rushing  of 
nations,  that  make  a  rushing  like  the  rushing  of  mighty 
waters !  The  nations  shall  rush  like  the  rushing  of  many 
waters:  but  Jehovah  shall  rebuke  them,  and  they  shall 
flee  far  off,  and  shall  be  chased  as  the  chaff  of  the  moun¬ 
tains  before  the  wind,  and  like  a  thistle-down  before  the 
whirlwind.  Like  as  the  lion  and  the  young  lion  roaring 
on  his  prey  when  a  multitude  of  shepherds  is  called  forth 


90 


THAT  JEW! 


against  him,  He  will  not  be  afraid  of  their  voices,  nor 
abase  Himself  for  the  noise  of  them:  so  shall  The  Lord 
of  Hosts  come  down  to  fight  for  Mount  Zion,  and  for 
the  hill  thereof.  As  birds  flying,  so  will  The  Lord  of 
Hosts  defend  Jerusalem:  defending  also  He  will  deliver 
it  and  passing  over  He  will  preserve  it.” 


THAT  JEW ! 


9i 


CHAPTER  XII 

THE  DAY  OF  JACOB’S  TROUBLE 

“For  it  is  the  time  of  Jacob’s  trouble 

One  may  faintly  conceive  that  when  the  Jewish  mind 
had  recovered  from  the  effects  of  the  earthquake,  a 
sense  of  great  relief  filled  their  hearts,  as  they  beheld  the 
rush  of  the  Gentiles  from  the  city,  and  they  only,  the 
Jews,  left  behind.  Their  Gentile  persecutors  one  and  all 
were  only  too  glad  to  shake  the  dust  of  that  city  from 
their  feet.  To  be  sure  all  was  confusion,  and  disorder — 
the  Jews  were  like  a  pack  of  sheep  without  a  shepherd, 
without  a  leader  to  tell  them  what  to  do. 

But  suddenly  it  was  noticeable  that  the  men  who  had 
not  received  the  mark  of  the  Man-God  were  getting 
more  numerous;  they  were  coming  from  their  hiding 
places,  from  underground  cellars  and  caves — and  all  of 
them  had  ringing  words  of  cheer  on  their  lips.  To  be 
sure  they  were  once  the  poor  ones,  the  needy  brothers, 
the  despised  ones,  but  now  they  grasped  at  the  leader¬ 
ship — speaking  great  words  of  cheer.  They  proclaimed 
boldly  that  the  hour  of  Jacob’s  redemption  was  at  hand. 
They  pointed  out  how  the  words  of  the  Two  Witnesses 
had  partly  come  to  pass,  and  that,  without  the  shadow  of 
a  doubt,  the  rest  of  their  promises  would  also  be  fulfilled. 
The  resurrection  of  Jehovah’s  messengers  from  the 
dead — their  visible  ascension  to  Heaven — the  terrible 
earthquake — was  surely  the  finger  of  Jehovah.  At  last 
His  hand  was  stretched  out  to  rescue  His  people — their 
redemption  from  all  their  enemies  was  surely  at  hand. 


92 


THAT  JEW! 


And  a  great  hope  filled  the  Israelitish  breast — those 
who  were  of  the  Remnant  waxed  bold  as  very  lions. 
The  rich  ones,  and  those  who  had  received  the  mark  of 
the  Man-God  could  not  realize  such  high  hopes.  But  to 
them  came  the  daring  of  despair !  The  only  spot  in 
Europe  where  they  could  feel  at  home  was  Zion — in  that 
city  they  would  rather  die  than  anywhere  else.  And 
then,  perchance,  there  still  was  hope.  Russia  to  the  north 
might  swoop  down  at  any  time  with  its  millions  of 
trained  men ;  the  Barbarians  were  not  all  destroyed ; 
what  if  they  were  making  westward  to  plunder  Euro¬ 
pean  cities?  But  the  Barbarians  never  ill-treated  the 
house  of  Israel :  Perchance,  their  Oriental  Cohorts 
would  be  here  before  it  was  possible  for  the  European 
nations  to  pour  their  trained  millions  on  the  fields  of 
Palestine.  And  then,  perforce,  America  would  plead 
mediation  for  them  with  yonder  despot.  The  destruction 
of  his  capital,  the  oncoming  rush  of  the  Barbarians,  the 
seeming  down  sweeping  of  the  Russian  millions,  might 
make  a  wish  in  his  heart  for  the  help  of  America.  Surely 
their  brethren  in  America  would  plead  with  the  author¬ 
ities  to  ask  him  to  be  gracious  to  the  Jews  in  Jerusalem. 
They  were  not  dead  men  yet ;  there  was  a  glimmering  of 
hope — and  time — a  little  time  might  bring  deliverance 
from  some  quarter. 

So  then  Jerusalem  was  divided  into  two  parties,  both 
looking  for  deliverance  from  widely  different  points. 

The  Remnant,  as  we  will  call  the  followers  of  the  Two 
Witnesses,  put  no  trust  in  any  human  aid,  to  look  for 
human  help  was  utterly  useless ;  they  trusted  for  deliv¬ 
erance  only  to  the  direct  interference  of  Jehovah.  He, 
and  He  alone,  was  their  refuge  and  their  only  hope. 

The  richer  brethren,  the  former  followers  of  the  Man- 


THAT  JEW! 


93 


God,  had  only  a  faint  hope  of  heavenly  aid.  Their 
hearts  were  yet  set  on  human  aid  from  some  quarter:  to 
use  a  common  phrase,  “Something  would  turn  up” ;  and 
they  were  rich  yet,  perchance  love  of  their  gold  would 
make  some  Gentile  hearts  relent,  and  make  a  way  of 
escape  from  the  hands  of  their  enemies. 

And  now  it  was  noticeable  that  at  night  hundreds  of 
men  and  women  who  had  hidden  themselves  in  rocky 
caves,  ravines  and  mountain  fastnesses,  months,  and  even 
years  before,  were  now  coming  into  the  city — for  was 
not  the  hour  of  deliverance  at  hand? 

The  glorious  promises  of  the  ancient  prophets  were 
constantly  on  their  lips.  Jehovah’s  promises  were  now 
pondered  over.  “So  shall  the  Lord  of  Hosts  come 
down  to  fight  for  Mount  Zion  and  for  the  Hill  thereof 
“As  birds  flying,  so  will  the  Lord  of  Hosts  defend 
Jerusalem.  Defending  also  He  will  deliver  it:  and  pass¬ 
ing  over  He  will  preserve  it A 

What  more  fitting  to  their  stricken  hearts !  What  more 
glorious  promise  to  this  strange  bird,  that  the  nations 
hated  and  hunted  to  death  on  every  mountain  of  Europe, 
than  those  exceeding  precious  words.  And  the  multi¬ 
tude  of  all  the  nations  that  fight  against  Ariel,  even  all 
that  fight  against  her  and  her  munition,  and  that  distress 
her,  shall  be  as  a  dream  of  a  night  vision A 

“It  shall  even  be  as  when  an  hungry  man  dreameth, 
and,  behold,  he  eateth:  but  he  awaketh,  and  his  soul  is 
empty :  or  as  when  a  thirsty  man  dreameth,  and,  behold, 
he  drinketh :  but  he  awaketh,  and,  behold,  he  is  faint,  and 
his  soul  has  appetite :  So  shall  the  multitudes  of  all  the 
nations  be,  that  fight  against  Mount  Zion.” 

And  now  for  the  defence  of  the  city !  How  could  they 
best  keep  the  enemy  at  bay  until  the  hour  of  deliverance  ? 


94 


THAT  JEW! 


For  they  would  show  their  faith  by  their  works.  They 
were  not  to  sit  down  with  folded  hands — and  await  the 
coming  hour.  Some  defense  was  necessary — and  indeed 
the  Word  of  God  said  plainly,  that  they  were  to  be  found 
by  Jehovah  fighting  their  enemies.  It  seemed  foolish¬ 
ness,  madness  to  think  of  a  defense,  but  then  it  was  their 
duty.  So  with  songs  of  hope  and  cheer  on  their  lips  to 
help  along  the  fearing  brethren,  to  strengthen  their  weak 
hands,  the  feeble  knees,  they  looked  to  their  war  weap¬ 
ons,  made  an  examination  of  the  old  walls,  looked  to  the 
gates  of  the  old  city — taught  the  young  men  and  boys 
how  to  handle  rifle  and  sword.  It  was  a  busy  time  in 
Jerusalem.  Only  the  very  aged  had  time  to  sit  down 
at  their  ease.  - 

For  this  resistance  to  their  enemies  was  surely  com¬ 
manded.  “In  that  day  will  I  make  the  governors  of 
Judah  like  an  hearth  of  fire  among  the  wood,  and  like 
a  torch  of  fire  in  a  sheaf — Judah  shall  fight  at  Jerusalem.” 

And  so  the  days  went  by.  From  their  towers  the  in¬ 
habitants  of  Jerusalem  could  see  the  Man-God’s  tents, 
could  hear  their  shoutings  and  the  music  of  dances  and 
revelry — but  no  attempt  was  made  on  the  Gentile’s  part 
to  re-enter  the  city.  The  inhabitants  knew  well  it  was 
only  a  little  breathing  spell.  They  had  been  informed 
of  the  taunts  and  boastings  of  the  enraged  Man-God. 
He  was  but  waiting  for  his  armaments  from  Europe — ■ 
and  then  the  time  would  come  to  glut  his  hatred  and 
vengeance  not  only  on  the  inhabitants  but  on  every 
stone  in  Jerusalem'. 

And  the  watchers  of  Jerusalem  heard  how  Jehovah’s 
hand  was  heavy  on  Babylon,  of  her  utter  destruction, 
and  took  comfort;  for  though  Jehovah  had  not  yet  in 
any  manner  revealed  Himself  to  them,  had  given  them 


THAT  JEW! 


95 


no  sign  nor  token,  the  Remnant  still  held  fast  to  His 
promise.  These  were  the  days  that  they  were  as  a  people 
shut  up  entirely  with  the  Word :  that,  the  only  means 
of  hope,  comfort  and  relief  to  their  souls. 

And  now  they  knew  the  war  vessels  had  come  at  last ; 
they  knew  that  in  the  offing  was  the  greatest  gathering, 
and  grouping,  of  war  ships  the  world  had  ever  seen. 
They  knew  that  every  minute  saw  the  landing  of  hun¬ 
dreds  of  trained  soldiers.  They  saw  in  the  distance  the 
fluttering  of  flags  and  banners ;  saw  the  hills  and  valleys 
covered  with  living  armed  men,  thick  as  locusts ;  so  that 
the  earth  might  well  tremble  at  the  measured  tread  of 
the  cohorts.  And  round  about  Jerusalem  on  every  side, 
bristling  weapons  of  war  flashed  and  gleamed  in  the 
sunlight. 

They  saw  cohort  after  cohort  take  up  its  position ;  they 
saw  the  planting  of  the  standards,  and  they  knew  that 
the  last  day  was  about  to  dawn.  The  taunts  and  sneers 
of  their  foes,  borne  to  their  ears,  told  them  that  on  the 
morrow  was  The  Day  of  Doom ! 

And  surely  such  a  gathering  of  hosts  as  fairly  dark¬ 
ened  and  covered  all  the  land,  was  enough  to  quench  the 
hope  of  every  Jew  in  Jerusalem.  Even  the  Remnant 
were  dismayed.  Their  hearts  could  not  help  feeling  a 
terror — a  dread.  As  to  the  others,  they  were  filled  with 
the  utmost  horror.  They  had  not  a  hope  of  deliv¬ 
erance.  Despair  had  eaten  to  their  heaits  core.  Ask 
ye  now  and  see  whether  a  man  doth  tvavail  with  child ? 
Wherefore  do  1  see  every  man  with  his  hands  on  his 
loins y  as  a  woman  in  travail ,  and  all  faces  are  turned 
into  paleness ?  Alas ,  for  that  day  is  cfreat,  so  that 
none  is  like  it:  It  is  even  the  time  of  Jacob’s  trouble ! 

Is  this  to  be  the  last  evening — the  last  offering  of  the 


96 


THAT  JEW! 


evening  sacrifice?  Ah,  the  temple  place  is  filled,  not 
a  space  left,  for  the  weary  stricken  heart  of  Israel  can 
find  no  other  place  on  earth  that  can  give  as  it  were  a 
little  resting  for  the  soul.  Did  eye  ever  before  behold 
such  abject  sorrow?  When  compared  to  their  enemies, 
they  were  at  best  only  a  few  thousand  men,  women  and 
children,  while  around  them  were  millions  of  men— 
every  one  hating  them  to  the  death.  A  few  thousand 
clinging  to  a  rock,  and  around  them  the  angry  stormy 
sea  encircling,  ready  to  dash  over  them,  swallow  them 
up,  and  leave  not  a  soul  to  tell  they  had  ever  been  there ! 

What  an  evening!  Perchance,  a  beautiful  pleasant  one 
— the  sun  sinking  as  it  were  into  the  waves  of  the  sea; 
a  sea  covered  with  thousands  of  ships  of  the  foeman,  and 
millions  around  them  laughing,  singing,  dancing,  feast- 
ing,  drinking  to  the  gayest  music. 

For  on  this  evening  there  is  high  revelry  in  the  camp 
of  the  Gentile  Hosts.  The  Man-God  is  feasting  with 
his  ten  kings  seated  at  his  table.  There  is  the  wildest 
liberty  of  speech  and  action — for  this  God  believes  that 
His  worshippers  should  make  merry. 

And  on  the  hill  of  Zion.  Ah,  the  watchers,  numbed 
as  it  were  at  heart  and  soul,  shrank  from  thoughts  of 
the  dread  to-morrow. 

Blow  the  trumpet  in  Zion ,  sanctify  a  fast ,  call  a  sol¬ 
emn  assembly:  Gather  the  people,  sanctify  the  congrega¬ 
tion,  assemble  the  elders,  gather  the  children,  and  those 
that  suck  the  breasts:  let  the  bridegroom  go  forth  of 
his  chamber,  and  the  bride  out  of  her  closet. 

(<Let  the  priests,  the  ministers  of  The  Lord,  weep  be¬ 
tween  the  porch  and  the  altar,  and  let  them  say,  Spare 
Thy  People,  O  Lord,  and  give  not  thine  heritage  to  re- 
proach,  that  the  heathen  should  rule  over  them:  where- 


THAT  JEW! 


97 


fore  should  they  say  among  the  people,  IV here  is  their 
God  ?” 

But  Jehovah  gave  no  sign — the  Heavens  were  blank 
and  dumb — the  only  comfort  the  children  of  Israel  had 
was  The  Written  Promise  of  God.  And  so  in  this 
attitude  of  kneeling  around  the  altar  of  Jehovah  the 
night  shadows  passed  away,  and  the  morning  dawned. 


98 


THAT  JEW! 


CHAPTER  XIII 

THE  COMING  OF  THE  KING 

The  last  day  of  Gentile  Supremacy  on  the  earth  had 
dawned. 

This  day  marked  the  ending  of  the  Old,  the  commence¬ 
ment  of  the  New  Age. 

The  last  night  of  the  “Times  of  the  Gentiles”  had  been 
marked  by  the  besiegers  of  Jerusalem  with  a  wild  and 
unrestrained  revelry,  with  unblushing  debauchery.  The 
high  water  mark  of  effrontery  to  Heaven  had  been 
reached — every  known  law  of  Jehovah  had  been  jeered 
at,  mocked  at,  and  broken. 

And  the  worn-out  sleepers  of  the  camp  were  suddenly 
awakened  by  the  most  uncanny  screams  from  mid  air. 
Men  rubbed  their  eyes  to  catch  a  glimpse  of  what  might 
cause  this  strange  crying  in  the  air.  In  the  breaking  of 
the  morning  light  they  saw  the  Heavens  north  and  south, 
east  and  west,  dark  and  black ;  but  lo,  what  seemed  clouds 
they  soon  knew  to  be  birds ;  birds  of  prey — carrion  birds, 
coming  to  a  common  resting  place ;  all  moving  towards 
Jerusalem.  The  air  was  filled  with  their  wild  screamings 
— men  cowered  at  this  fierce  crying  above  their  heads ; 
for  now  the  eagles,  condors,  and  vultures,  were  swooping 
down,  were  sitting  on  trees,  on  cliffs,  on  crags,  in  places 
inaccessible  to  men ;  wherever  the  feet  of  men  were  not, 
even  there  alighted  the  birds  of  prey. 

For  the  bidden  guests  of  Jehovah  were  coming  to  be 
fed. 


THAT  JEW! 


99 


It  had  been  a  general  invitation:  For  the  Angel  had 
cried,  saying  to  all  the  fowls  that  fly  in  the  midst  of 
Heaven:  “Come  and  gather  yourselves  together  unto  the 
supper  of  The  Great  God:  that  ye  may  eat  of  the  flesh 
of  Kings  and  the  flesh  of  captains ,  and  the  flesh  of 
mighty  men ,  both  free  and  bond ,  both  great  and  small.” 

The  morning  came.  “A  day  of  blackness  and  gloomi¬ 
ness,  a  day  of  clouds,  and  of  thick  darkness,  as  the  morn¬ 
ing  spread  upon  the  mountains.” 

And  the  Gentile  Hosts:  “A  great  people  and  strong : 
there  hath  not  been  ever  the  like,  neither  shall  be  any 
more  after  it,  even  to  the  years  of  many  generations.  A 
fire  devoureth  before  them ;  and  behind  them  a  flame 
burneth:  the  land  is  a  garden  of  Eden  before  them,  and 
behind  them  a  desolate  wilderness:  yea,  and  nothing  shall 
escape  them.  Before  their  faces  the  people  shall  be  much 
pained:  all  faces  shall  gather  blackness.” 

Multitudes ,  multiudes  in  the  valley  of  decision  for  the 
day  of  The  Lord  is  near  in  the  valley  of  decision .”  Yea, 
indeed  the  Gentiles  had  been  awakened  and  come  up  to 
the  valley  of  Jehoshaphat. 

Would  that  the  imagination  could  grasp  and  paint  that 
scene ! 

A  city  of  a  few  thousand  inhabitants— two-thirds  of 
them  shaken  with  fear  as  shake  the  aspen  leaves — with¬ 
out  a  single  ray  of  hope;  one-third  of  them  buoyed  up 
with  more  than  mortal  courage,  prepared  to  give  battle 
to  millions.  A  city  of  destruction  surely,  exclaims  the 
human  heart. 

And  round  about  them  millions  on  millions  of  horse¬ 
men  and  footmen,  with  all  the  modern  appliances  of  war¬ 
fare.  Parks  of  artillery,  that,  had  the  cruel  foeman 
wished,  could  have  swept  the  city  to  a  ruined  heap  in  a 


100 


THAT  JEW! 


few  short  hours.  But,  perchance,  the  long  drawn  out 
misery  of  these  accursed  Jews  was  by  far  sweeter  than 
sudden  destruction.  The  mice  were  safe,  the  cats  could 
afford  to  play  a  little  with  their  victims. 

Here  then  on  a  height  that  commanded  a  full  view  of 
this  hated  city,  rested,  to  watch  the  coming  victory,  to 
feast  his  cruel  eyes  on  their  death  agony — The  Man-God : 
at  his  feet  the  ten  Kings  of  his  great  Roman  Empire ;  a 
retinue  that  blazed  with  precious  stones,  and  magnificent 
in  purple,  and  scarlet,  and  laces,  with  decorations  to  hold 
and  bedazzle  the  sight. 

The  Man-God  lifts  his  hand.  The  trumpet  sounds — a 
thousand  trumpets  catch  the  first  note — the  mounted 
cohorts  and  the  infantry  move  on. 

What  is  all  the  bravery  of  this  handful  of  Jews !  They 
are  beaten  back  from  loophole,  and  wall,  and  parapet. 

The  city  is  taken! 

The  wild  license  allowed  the  soldiers  has  commenced. 
The  houses  are  rifled,  the  women  ravished,  and  one-half 
of  the  inhabitants  are  held  captives.  They  are,  per¬ 
chance,  led  to  the  presence  of  the  Man-God  who  is  soon 
to  whet  his  vengeance  on  the  miserable  cowering  captives. 

But  now  this  Remnant  has  been  pressed  towards  the 
Temple,  fighting  every  step  with  a  reckless  daring,  a 
splendid  courage  that  their  enemies  admire.  They  are 
now  inside  the  Temple  inclosure — is  it  to  die  ? 

Surely  not,  Jehovah  Of  Hosts! 

But  what  is  this — suddenly  an  appalling  darkness,  the 
sun  shut  out — a  darkness  that  may  be  felt — confusion 
amid  the  Gentile  hosts — wild  cries  of  terror  and  dismay : 
a  cry  from  millions  of  lips. 

“Light !  Light,  O  Man-God !  where  art  thou  ?  Give 
us  light.” 


THAT  JEW! 


IOI 


But  that  terrible  unnatural  darkness  cowed  both  man 
and  beast. 

The  hearts  of  both  became  silent. 

Then  the  light  came  from  a  point  they  wist  not  of. 
Suddenly  from  High  Heaven  a  trumpet  rang — a  blast  that 
echoed  like  a  thunder  clap  in  every  listener’s  ear.  And 
then  a  shout — the  shouting  of  many,  many  millions, 
swelling  and  swelling  until  the  heavens  rolled  as  if  with 
thunder,  and  the  earth  beneath  men’s  feet  trembled  and 
shook  with  the  vibrations. 

And  suddenly,  far  away,  o’er  the  Idumean  Hills,  a  sin¬ 
gle  shaft  of  unutterably  brilliant  light!  Then  a  million 
shafts,  heralding  a  coming  glory ;  and  then  every  eye  of 
that  Gentile  host  beheld  the  form  of  A  Man — A  Man 
standing  alone  in  mid-Heaven ;  the  exceeding  brightness 
of  whose  glory  dazzling  to  look  on. 

Around  them  darkness,  thick  darkness — and  That 
Man  a  blazing  glory  projected  as  it  were  from  a  back¬ 
ground  of  terrible  darkness. 

All  else,  in  Heaven  above  and  Earth  below,  in  utter 
darkness,  darkness  which  was  felt,  the  darkness  of  de¬ 
struction,  oppressive  on  eye  and  to  soul — the  only  figure 
visible — That  Glorious  Man  standing  alone  in  mid- 
Heaven. 

And  every  Gentile  soul  knew  That  Magnificent 
Kingly  Man  was  The  Crucified  Jehovah  Christ — 
who  a  few  seconds  before  they  had  jeered,  mocked, 
taunted,  daring  Him — His  worst  to  do ! 

And  That  Man  coming — coming,  coming  towards 
them ! 

Lo,  then,  behind  Him,  on  all  sides  of  Him,  a  moving 
multitudinous  company  of  beings,  whose  apparel  glit¬ 
tered  with  a  glory  brighter  than  sunlight. 


102 


THAT  JEW! 


At  His  feet,  rushing  before  Him,  was  a  whirlwind  of 
flame,  and  smoke,  and  mighty  thunderings. 

Appalled  was  all  that  Gentile  army — man  and  beast 
chilled  silently  and  stiff  with  terror. 

And  The  Remnant  of  the  Jews  beheld,  beheld  with 
rapture,  astonishment,  and  mighty  wonder ;  ere  they  were 
aware,  every  one  was  on  his  knees,  hand  stretched  out, 
and  almost  unconsciously  from  their  lips  in  thunder  tones 
welled  forth : 

“Blessed  is  He  that  cometh  in  the  name  of  the 
Lord  \” 

“Lo !  This  is  our  God;  we  have  waited  for  Him,  and 
He  will  save  us:  this  is  The  Lord;  we  have  waited  fox 
Him,  we  will  he  glad  and  rejoice  in  His  salvation.” 

And  still  Jehovah  Christ  moved  on,  high  o’er  the 
heads  of  the  foeman,  the  trailings  of  His  glory  sweeping 
over  the  Apostates’  heads. 

He  was  descending  from  mid-air. 

“The  Lord  my  God  had  come  and  all  His  Saints  with 
Him.” 

•  • 

“His  feet  shall  stand  in  that  day  upon  the  Mount  of 
Olives  which  is  before  Jerusalem  on  the  East.” 

At  last  the  prophecy  uttered  two  thousand  years  ago 
is  fulfilled. 

((Ye  men  of  Galilee ,  why  stand  ye  gazing  up  into 
Heaven ?  This  Same  Jesus  which  is  taken  up  from  you 
into  Heaven  shall  so  come  in  like  manner  as  ye  have  seen 
Him  go  into  heaven.” 

(<And  the  Mount  of  Olives  shall  cleave  in  the  midst 
thereof  towards  the  East ,  and  towards  the  West  and 
there  shall  he  a  very  great  valley  and  half  of  the  mountain 
shall  remove  towards  the  North  and  half  of  it  towards 
the  South.” 


THAT  JEW! 


103 


And  then  Jehovah  Christ  veiling  the  glory  of  His 
face,  turned  to  the  Remnant,  with  ineffable  tenderness  of 
voice,  saying: 

“Come,  my  people,  enter  thou  into  thy  chambers  and 
shut  thy  doors  about  thee' :  hide  thyself  as  it  were  for 
a  little  moment,  until  the  indignation  be  overpast !” 

And  ye  shall  flee  to  the  valley  of  the  mountains  for 
the  valley  of  the  mountains  shall  reach  unto  Azal.” 

Jehovah  Christ  shall  shut  them  in  and  when  they 
are  safe,  He  shall  turn  to  the  silent  Gentile  hosts  and  do 
His  work,  “His  strange  work  upon  the  earth.” 

He  shall  speak— and,  lo,  the  Plague  shall  fall  on  the 
Gentile  nations.  And  this  shall  be  the  plague  where¬ 
with  The  Lord  will  smite  all  the  people  that  have  fought 
against  Jerusalem  /  their  flesh  shall  consume  away  while 
they  stand  upon  their  feet,  and  their  eyes  shall  consume 
away  in  their  holes,  and  their  tongues  shall  consume 
away  in  their  mouth.  And  so  shall  be  the  plague  of  the 
horse,  of  the  mule,  of  the  camel,  and  of  the  ass,  and  of 
all  the  beasts  that  shall  be  in  these  tents.  And  it  shall 
come  to  pass  in  that  day,  that  a  great  tumult  from  The 
Lord  shall  be  among  them ;  and  they  shall  lay  hold  every 
one  on  the  hand  of  his  neighbor,  and  his  hand  shall  rise 
up  against  the  hand  of  his  neighbor. 

“Put  ye  in  the  sickle  for  the  harvest  is  ripe:  come,  get 
ye  dozen:  for  the  press  is  full,  the  vats  overflow.” 

What  a  picture  ! 

The  helpless  Antichrist,  and  the  helpless  Prophet— 
both  standing  silent — afraid  to  look  at  The  Conqueror 
who  by  the  word  of  His  mouth  had  put  the  glory  of  Anti¬ 
christ’s  millions  to  shame. 

The  wasting  away  of  the  flesh!  Their  eyesight 
quenched  forevermore !  Their  tongues  shriveling  away  I 


104 


THAT  JEW! 


Neither  beast  nor  man  could  see  or  cry!  A  silent  com¬ 
pany  of  speechless  millions !  Then  the  wild,  mad  pranc- 
ings  of  the  blinded  animals;  the  mad  dashing  they  knew 
not  where,  trampling  one  another ;  the  blinded  horsemen 
in  silent  rage  swinging  their  swords  at  foeman  they  could 
not  see ;  men  and  horses  dashing  in  blinded  fury  over 
hill  and  dale — down  precipitous  steeps  and  ravines ! 

What  a  carnage ! 

“And  the  wine  press  was  trodden  without  the  city ,  and 
blood  came  out  of  the  wine  press,  even  unto  the  horses’ 
bridles,  by  the  space  of  a  thousand  six  hundred  furlongs.” 
(Or  two  hundred  miles.) 

With  his  cohorts  destroyed,  the  Man-God  and  his 
Prophet  stood  to  receive  their  doom.  And  unseen  to 
human  eye,  stood  Satan  by  them  crushed,  defeated, 
utterly  powerless,  a  captive  awaiting  his  sentence.  The 
Satanic  Trinity,  all  speechless,  had  to  look  up  to  The 
Christ,  whom  they  had  cursed,  defied,  traduced  and 
branded  with  infamy  in  the  hearts  of  deluded  men. 

There  stood  Jehovah  Christ.  “On  His  head  were 
many  crowns ;  and  He  had  a  name  written,  that  no  man 
knew,  but  He  alone.  And  He  was  clothed  with  a  ves¬ 
ture  dipped  in  blood:  And  His  name  is  called  The 
Word  of  God.  And  He  hath  on  His  vesture  and  on 
His  thigh  a  name  written : 

“King  of  Kings  and  Lord  of  Lords!” 

“And  the  beast  was  taken  and  with  him  the  false 
prophet.  These  both  were  cast  alive  into  a  lake  of  fire 
burning  with  brimstone. 

“And  an  angel  came  down  from  Heaven,  having  the 
key  of  the  bottomless  pit  and  a  great  chain  in  his  hand. 
And  he  laid  hold  on  the  Dragon,  the  old  serpent,  which 
is  the  Devil,  and  Satan,  and  bound  him  a  thousand  years, 


THAT  JEW! 


105 


and  cast  him  into  the  bottomless  pit  and  shut  him  up, 
and  set  a  seal  upon  him,  that  he  should  deceive  the  na¬ 
tions  no  more,  till  the  thousand  years  should  be  fulfilled.” 

And  it  shall  come  to  pass  in  that  day,  that  the  light 
shall  not  be  clear,  nor  dark. 

“But  it  shall  he  one  day  which  shall  he  known  to  The 
Lord,  not  day ,  nor  night.” 

And  over  the  entire  world  shall  Jehovah  Christ's 
presence  be  felt.  But  His  wrath  shall  be  more  terrible 
over  apostate  Europe,  and  the  nations  who  only  accepted 
His  Gospel  in  a  half-hearted  manner. 

On  the  day  of  His  appearance  the  cities  of  the  nations 
fell.  Devastation  and  earthquakes  were  everywhere. 
His  zo}  ath  was  upon  every  high  tower ,  and  upon  every 
fenced  wall,  and  upon  all  the  ships  of  Tarsliish,  and  upon 
all  pleasant  pictures” ;  the  loftiness  of  men  was  bowed 
down,  the  haughtiness  of  men  made  low.  The  Lord 
alone  was  exalted  on  that  day.  Men  hid  themselves  in 
the  holes  of  the  rocks  and  in  the  caves  of  the  earth  for 
the  fear  of  The  Lord,  for  they  beheld  the  flashings  of 
His  glory  when  He  arose  to  shake  terribly  the  earth. 

His  plagues  devastated  Europe,  destroying  its  cities, 
and  fields  and  vineyards. 

But  it  shall  come  to  pass  that  at  evening  time  it  shall 
he  light.” 

And  then,  veiling  the  imperial  majesty  of  His  glory, 
making  His  face  so  that  mortal  man  could  look  upon  His 
features,  He  liberated  from  their  rock-bound  cavern  of 
safety,  His  people  Israel. 

In  that  day  there  was  a  fountain  opened  to  the  House 
of  David  and  to  the  inhabitants  of  Jerusalem  for  sin  and 
for  uncleanness. 

“I  will  pour  upon  the  House  of  David  and  upon  the 


io6 


THAT  JEW! 


inhabitants  of  Jerusalem  the  spirit  of  grace  and  of  sup¬ 
plication  :  and  they  shall  look  upon  Me  whom  they  have 
pierced.” 

The  Royal  Christ  Joseph  was  reconciled  to  His 
brethren  at  last. 

“They  shall  call  on  My  name,  and  I  will  hear  them; 
I  will  say,  It  is  My  people:  and  they  shall  say,  The  Lord 
is  my  God! 

And  The  Lord  shall  be  King  over  all  the  earth:  in 
that  day  shall  there  be  One  Lord  and  His  name  one. 

The  Kingdoms  of  this  world  are  become  the  king¬ 
doms  of  our  Lord,  and  of  His  Christ:  and  He  shall 
reign  for  ever  and  ever.” 

And  the  ransomed  of  The  Lord  shall  return,  and 
come  to  Zion  with  songs  and  everlasting  joy  upon  their 
heads;  they  shall  obtain  joy  and  gladness  and  sorrow  and 
sighing  shall  flee  away. 

The  moon  shall  be  confounded,  and  the  sun  ashamed, 
when  the  Lord  of  Hosts  shall  reign  in  Mount  Zion,  and 
in  Jerusalem  and  before  His  ancients  gloriously. 

And  it  shall  come  to  pass  in  that  day,  that  Jehovah 
shall  set  His  hand  again  The  Second  Time  to  recover 
the  remnant  of  His  people  which  shall  be  left  from 
Assyria,  and  from  Egypt,  and  from  Pathros  and  from 
Cush,  and  from  Elam,  and  from  Shinar,  and  from 
Hamath,  and  from  the  Islands  to  the  Sea.  And  He  shall 
set  up  an  ensign  for  the  nations,  and  shall  assemble  the 
outcasts  of  Israel,  and  gather  together  the  dispersed  of 
Judah  from  the  four  corners  of  the  earth.  Who  are 
these  that  fly  as  a  cloud,  and  as  doves  to  their  windows. 
Surely  the  isles  shall  wait  for  Me,  and  the  ships  of 
Tarshish  first  to  bring  thy  sons  from  afar,  their  silver 
and  their  gold  with  them,  unto  the  name  of  The  Lord 


THAT  JEW! 


107 


thy  God,  and  to  The  Holy  One  of  Israel.  Hear  the 
word  of  Jehovah,  O  ye  Nations,  and  declare  it  in  the 
isles  afar  off,  and  say,  He,  that  scattered  Israel  will 
gather  him,  and  keep  him,  as  a  shepherd  doth  his  flock, 
therefore  shall  they  come  and  sing  in  the  height  of  Zion. 
Behold  Jehovah  shall  bring  them  from  the  north  coun¬ 
try  and  gather  them  from  the  coasts  of  the  earth.  The 
sons  of  strangers  shall  build  up  thy  walls,  and  their  Kings 
shall  minister  unto  thee.  Therefore  thy  gates  shall  be 
open  continually ;  they  shall  not  be  shut  day  nor  night ; 
that  men  may  bring  unto  thee  the  wealth  of  the  Gentiles. 
The  nation  and  kingdom  that  will  not  serve  thee  shall 
perish ;  yea,  those  nations  shall  be  utterly  wasted.  The 
sons  also  of  them  that  afflicted  thee  shall  come  bending 
unto  thee ;  and  all  they  that  despised  thee  shall  bow  them¬ 
selves  down  at  the  soles  of  thy  feet;  and  they  shall  call 
thee  The  City  of  Jehovah,  The  Zion  of  The  Holy  One 
of  Israel.  A  little  one  shall  become  a  thousand  and  a 
small  one  a  strong  nation. 

I  Jehovah  will  hasten  it  in  His  Time! 

Thy  people  also  shall  be  all  righteous:  they  shall 
inherit  the  land  forever,  the  branch  of  My  planting,  the 
work  of  My  hands,  that  I  may  be  glorified.  All  that  see 
them  shall  acknowledge  them,  that  they  are  the  seed 
which  Jehovah  hath  blessed.,, 


ioB 


THAT  JEW! 


CHAPTER  XIV 

THE  SANCTUARY  OF  ZION 

One  coming  up  from  the  South  to  the  City  of  The 
Great  King,  even  when  fifty  miles  away,  will  see  first, 
faintly  outlined  against  the  sky  and  running  from  East  to 
West,  a  high,  almost  mountainous  stretch  of  tableland. 
The  exceedingly  clear  atmosphere  shows  that  the  elevated 
land  is  some  sixty  miles  wide,  lying  like  a  rocky  rampart, 
or  wall,  as  if  to  block  effectually  advance,  unless  by  some 
easy  grade  of  roadway  winding  zigzag  on  the  face  of  the 
rock. 

On  nearer  approach  one  can  see  at  about  the  center  of 
the  elevated  tableland,  a  column  of  smoke,  or  cloud,  aris¬ 
ing  as  if  from  the  ground,  and  in  a  solid  mass  entering 
unto  high  heaven ;  a  cloud  of  smoke  not  scattered  nor 
dissipated  in  smaller  masses  by  the  wind. 

Nearer  still,  and  one  notices  on  the  face  of  the  rock 
a  wide  sheet  of  glistening  water  falling  down  in  a  beauti¬ 
ful  unbroken  cascade.  No  noisy  roar  of  rushing,  swirl¬ 
ing  waters,  but  a  sound  more  like  the  hum  of  song  in 
the  summer  atmosphere  that  would  not  disturb  the 
slumbers  of  a  child. 

On  gaining  the  level  of  the  tableland,  one  stands  in  the 
streets  of  the  City  of  The  Great  King.  But  one  presses 
forward  through  the  city,  several  miles  in  width,  for  in 
the  distance  is  a  glory  that  claims  the  eye. 

One  passes  through  the  portion  of  the  Levites,  a 
beautiful  luxuriant  stretch  of  land  some  twenty-two  miles 


THAT  JEW! 


109 


wide,  and  then  right  at  its  border  commences  a  stretch 
of  country  containing  The  Beauty  of  all  Lands — The 
Sanctuary  of  Jehovah  at  Zion  ! 

About  fifty  feet  of  this  structure  stands  in  the  portion 
of  the  Levites,  while  the  remaining  part  of  the  Wonder¬ 
ful  Building  stands  in  the  portion  of  The  Prince — shall 
we  call  it,  The  Earthly  Residence  of  The  Risen  Saints. 

Each  one  of  the  four  sides  of  the  structure  is  iden¬ 
tically  the  same  so  far  as  outward  appearance,  shape, 
height,  size,  material  and  ornamentation  are  concerned. 

From  the  ground  rose  the  sapphire  foundation  wall 
twelve  feet  high  and  twelve  feet  thick,  pierced  by  eleven 
massive  gateways  or  entrances.  Then  rising  above  the 
wall,  but  not  resting  on  the  wall,  a  range  of  columns  each 
sixty  feet  high,  and  springing  from  the  top  of  each  col¬ 
umn  to  meet  the  next  an  arch,  the  distance  from  center 
to  center  of  the  columns  being  sixty-two  feet. 

See  then  a  succession  of  decorated  archways  running 
one  mile  in  length  terminating  at  either  end  in  the  tower 
or  corner  court. 

The  sapphire  walls  twelve  feet  high  pierced  at  regular 
intervals  by  the  eleven  gateways — each  gateway  fifty  feet 
wide — surmounted  by  columns  four  deep,  each  sixty  feet 
high,  and  joined  by  eight  magnificent  arches.  The  build¬ 
ing  stood  three  stories  in  height,  the  sides  partly  covered 
by  lattice  work  of  rare  stones. 

The  sanctuary  stood  supremely  the  most  glorious  and 
beautiful  structure  ever  beheld  by  human  eyes.  When 
first  the  eye  beholds,  a  wonderful  silence  falls  on  the 
heart  and  brain  and  soul  and  spirit.  A  great  awe— for 
this  is  surely  a  holy  place— the  human  brain  could  never 
have  conceived  of  such.  Human  ingenuity  and  skillful¬ 
ness  alone  could  not  have  built  nor  shapen  and  without 


no 


THAT  JEW! 


a  miraculous  formation  of  precious  stones  the  material 
of  the  structure  could  never  have  been  brought  together. 

Behold  a  structure  built  of  precious  stones.  Her  foun¬ 
dation  walls  of  sapphires,  her  windows  agates,  her  gates 
and  towers  flaming  blazing  carbuncles. 

The  structure  is  a  perfect  square,  each  side  one  mile  in 
length. 

Four  corner  towers  each  360  feet  square,  each  spring¬ 
ing  up  in  airy  magnificent  proportions  480  feet  high — 
towers  built  of  carbuncle  stones,  with  agate  framing  the 
windows  of  the  many  spacious  landings. 

Each  gateway  was  a  counterpart  of  the  others ;  in  size, 
height,  depth,  ornamentation,  exactly  the  same.  The  gate¬ 
way  has  seven  steps  from  the  ground  to  the  inside  pave¬ 
ment  of  the  building.  On  either  side  of  the  deep  gateway, 
at  equal  distances  from  each  other,  are  four  posts,  ten 
feet  wide,  twelve  feet  in  depth  and  about  twenty-eight 
feet  high,  forming  a  pedestal  to  columns  sixty  feet  high, 
while  springing  from  the  top  of  one  column  to  meet  the 
opposite  column  is  a  magnificent  arch  across  the  gate¬ 
way.  The  gateway  is  divided  in  the  center  by  columns 
twenty-six  feet  high,  and  in  either  portion  is  a  door  twen¬ 
ty  feet  wide,  each  door  having  two  leaves;  two  turning 
leaves,  two  for  one  door  and  two  for  the  other ;  one  gate 
being  for  exit,  the  other  gate  for  entrance.  On  entering 
in  one  sees  a  fence  or  lattice  work  running  the  width  of 
the  house  to  meet  similar  doorways  at  the  other  end  of  the 
passageways,  so  that  a  person  entering  by  one  door  can¬ 
not  pass  over  to  the  passageway  of  the  next  door. 

For  this  is  the  law  of  the  house.  “He  that  entereth 
in  by  the  way  of  the  North  Gate  to  worship  shall  go  out 
by  the  way  of  the  South  Gate ;  and  he  that  entereth  by  the 
way  of  the  South  Gate  shall  go  forth  by  the  way  of  the 


THAT  JEW! 


hi 


North  Gate;  he  shall  not  return  by  the  way  of  the  gate 
whereby  he  came  in,  but  shall  go  forth  over  against  it.” 
The  person  who  enters  at  one  side  of  the  building  must 
pass  along  a  courtway  one  mile  in  length,  coming  out  at 
the  opposite  side  of  the  structure.  In  edifices  capable  of 
holding  millions,  order  must  be  paramount,  to  prevent  a 
crush,  or  unseemly  confusion,  if  not  accidents. 

One  going  in  then  at  the  entrance  doorway  stands  in 
a  building  one  hundred  feet  deep  from  the  face  of  the 
gate  of  the  entrance  unto  the  face  of  the  porch  of  the 
inner  gate.  On  either  side  of  the  gate  passage  are  three 
little  chambers,  twelve  feet  square,  each,chamber  hemmed 
in  by  lattice  work,  so  that  one  cannot  pass  directly  from 
the  little  chambers  into  the  larger  chambers  on  either  side, 
for  the  fretted  work  bars  the  way. 

And  lo,  inside  is  an  inner  court  one  hundred  feet  wide, 
running  uninterruptedly  along  the  entire  length  of  the 
side  of  the  building.  From  the  building  proper  springs  a 
porch  (running  the  entire  length  of  the  edifice,  like  a 
colonnade  twenty  feet  wide  and  twenty-six  feet  high). 
Immediately  opposite,  separated  by  a  courtway  one  hun¬ 
dred  feet  wide,  lies  another  row  of  buildings  the  counter¬ 
part  of  the  outside  row — along  its  entire  length  being  a 
similar  porch  or  colonnade. 

Each  section  of  the  outer  building  from  gateway  to 
gateway  is  composed  of  large  reception  rooms  or  cellae, 
there  being  ten  lower  cellae  on  each  of  the  four  sides  of 
the  structure.  Along  the  sides  of  the  gate  are  elevators 
from  the  lower  to  the  upper  cellae — each  cellae  being  one 
hundred  feet  long  and  fifty  feet  wide.  There  are  in  all 
three  cellae  one  above  the  other,  one  hundred  and  twenty 
feet  high  in  the  several  stories. 

Now  the  four  sides  of  this  vast  double  structure  hem 


1 12 


THAT  JEW! 


in  an  enclosure  on  which  stand  the  buildings  composing 
the  Temple.  A  stately  structure,  or  rather  succession  of 
structures,  built  in  circular  shape,  which  in  turn  enclose 
an  open  area  three  miles  in  circumference,  and  about 
one  mile  across. 

Thirty  separate  buildings ;  each  stands  complete  by  it¬ 
self  with  a  covered  passageway  between.  Of  the  thirty 
buildings  surrounding  the  circular  area,  each  building  is 
a  counterpart  of  the  others  in  every  particular,  as  to 
height,  length,  breadth,  ornamentation  and  construction, 
each  building  being  two  hundred  feet  high,  two  hundred 
feet  in  breadth  and  including  porches  two  hundred  and 
sixty  feet  in  width.  For  all  round  the  buildings,  on  either 
side  to  the  front  and  to  the  rear  (if  indeed  this  house 
shows  any  rear,  for  both  sides  are  of  equal  beauty)  runs 
a  magnificent  porchway  three  miles  in  circumference. 
Now  each  end  of  every  building  is  shut  in  by  a  wall,  one 
hundred  and  eighty  feet  deep,  ten  feet  wide  and  one 
hundred  and  forty  feet  high,  from  the  level  of  the  pave¬ 
ment  of  the  cellae — the  pavement  stood  like  a  rampart 
twelve  feet  from  the  ground  level. 

Between  each  building  is  a  covered  opening  or  pas¬ 
sageway  forty  feet  wide.  One  cannot  pass  from  the  cov¬ 
ered  opening  to  the  buildings  on  either  hand.  From  the 
ground  to  the  cellae  pavement  the  height  is  twelve  feet, 
reached  by  steps  that  ascend  on  the  inside  of  the  porch. 
Rising  on  both  sides  of  each  entrance  stands  a  platform 
upon  which  the  pillars  of  the  porch  rest,  the  platform 
measuring  twelve  feet  in  height,  ten  feet  in  thickness  (or 
width)  and  forty  feet  in  length,  and  from  this  platform 
magnificent  pillars  rise  to  a  height  of  eighty  feet  above 
the  top  of  the  platform.  Now  as  one  ascends  the  steps 
leading  to  the  cellae  pavement  there  stand  on  one  hand 


THAT  JEW! 


ii3 

stately  pillars,  on  the  other  the  Cherubim.  And  the  Tem¬ 
ple  is  made  with  Cherubim  and  palm  trees  (on  the  col¬ 
umns)  so  that  a  palm  tree  is  between  the  Cherub;  and 
each  Cherub  has  two  faces;  so  that  the  face  of  a  man 
is  towards  the  palm  tree  on  the  one  side,  and  the  face 
of  a  young  lion  towards  the  palm  tree  on  the  other  side. 

Now  each  Cherub  is  of  magnificent  proportions,  the 
head  of  the  Cherub  is  near  to  the  outside  of  the  porch 
on  one  side,  and  the  hind  part  reaches  to  the  end  of  the 
porch  inward;  a  figure  forty  feet  in  length,  ten  feet  in 
width  and  twenty-four  feet  in  height,  cut  in  the  form  of 
a  living  creature ;  each  Cherub  having  two  faces.  Eight 
hundred  Cherubim  are  planted  all  round  at  equal  dis¬ 
tances  in  the  circular  Temple  three  miles  in  circum¬ 
ference. 

One  face  represents  The  Lion  of  the  Tribe  of  Judah. 

One  face  represents  The  Man  of  Jehovah's  Right 
Hand. 

These  beautiful  structures  stand  at  the  narrowest  point 
from  the  square  building  two  hundred  feet  distant.  From 
pillar  to  pillar  of  each  house  is  a  network  of  lattice  work, 
and  trailing  o’er  all  the  buildings  is  an  immense  vine,  con¬ 
stantly  bearing  the  most  delicious  grapes,  in  quantities  al¬ 
ways  sufficient  for  plucking —  and  not  a  single  grape 
which  falls  from  the  bunch  shows  either  mildew  or  de¬ 
cay — and  truly  the  millions  of  the  Earth  drink  of  the 
fruit  of  this  vine. 

Inside  of  each  structure  is  a  magnificent  single  chamber 
or  cellae — a  place  of  rare  beauty — with  a  ceiling  of  mag¬ 
nificent  proportions  and  a  groined  roof. 

The  Circular  buildings  of  the  Temple  surround  a  place 
called  The  Most  Holy,  and  here,  since  the  buildings  have 
been  finished,  the  foot  of  mortal  man  has  never  dared 


THAT  JEW! 


114 

enter.  It  would  mean  sudden,  certain  death  to  trespass 
there. 

In  the  center  arises  the  highest  of  all  the  hills  in  the 
immediate  neighborhood  —  Mount  Zion.  Somewhat 
changed  (as  indeed  the  entire  land  of  Palestine  was) 
when  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  commenced  to  reign  over 
the  earth.  On  the  top  of  Mount  Zion  is  ample  space  for 
the  altar.  An  altar  144  feet  on  each  side,  having  at  each 
corner  four  square  corners  called  horns,  each  8  feet 
high ;  and  outside  the  altar  a  court  16  feet  wide.  The 
central  portion  of  the  altar,  where  the  sacrifices  are 
burned,  is  called  The  Lion  of  God.  The  outside  section 
of  the  structure  is  called  The  Mount  of  God.  This  is 
raised  two  feet  above  the  surface  of  the  rock. 

“Welling  from  the  four  corner  horns  is  an  ample  supply 
of  water  running  into  the  altar  place  proper,  then  passing 
under  the  Lion  platform — thus  keeping  the  altar  cool  and 
preventing  fusion  or  disruption  of  materials  composing 
it.”  ( See  Sulley.) 

The  fire  on  the  altar  never  goes  out,  but  the  smoke  of 
sacrifice  ascends  perpetually  to  Heaven — meeting  the  Pil¬ 
lar  of  Cloud  right  above  the  altar — the  Cloudy  Pillar 
where  Jehovah  manifests  LIis  Glory  of  Presence  to 
the  eyes  of  the  world,  to  all  who  will  come  to  look  and 
worship  at  His  sanctuary. 

By  day  its  appearance  is  a  cloud,  by  night  a  blaze  of 
glory,  lighting  the  entire  space  of  the  Holy  Oblation — 
some  fifty-seven  miles  square,  with  the  soft  brilliancy  of 
sunshine,  so  that  the  words  of  the  Prophet  were  true  in¬ 
deed  :  “There  shall  be  no  night  there !”  “Therefore  the 
gates  shall  be  opened  continually ;  they  shall  not  be  shut 
day  nor  night.” 

And  as  one’s  eye  follows  the  ascending  smoke,  and 


THAT  JEW! 


ii5 

gaze  higher  still  he  may  see,  as  if  through  a  mist  the 
glow  of  a  Jasper  floorway — a  single  slab  of  Jasper 
stretching  1,500  miles  square — and  he  knows  that  the  Jas¬ 
per  Stone  is  the  lower  foundation  stone  of  The  Home  of 
The  Saints.  The  New  Jerusalem  as  recorded  by  John 
The  Divine  in  the  21st  chapter  of  the  Apocalypse. 

And  this  glorious  earthy  structure  is 

The  House  of  Prayer  for  all  People. 

And  here  comes  yearly  to  keep  the  Feast  of  Tabernacles 
all  the  Nations  of  the  Earth. 

And  here  come  constantly,  day  by  day,  the  year  round, 
from  all  parts  of  the  habitable  Earth,  men,  women  and 
children  to  give  worship,  thanks  and  adoration  to  The 
Loving  Saviour,  and  to  see 

The  King  in  His  Beauty. 

And  while  Jehovah  Jesus  is  the  essence  of  Love,  yet 
He  will  not  resign  His  right  to  rule  over  the  Nations, 
Therefore  if  any  Nation  in  a  National  capacity  refuses 
to  pay  Him  the  homage  He  demands,  and  if  after  having 
been  duly  warned  of  the  consequences,  they  still  persist 
in  disobeying  His  commands,  His  offended  dignity  does 
not  long  let  the  offenders  alone  in  their  contempt  of  Him. 

It  will  not  then  be  as  now,  in  this  Gospel  age,  when 
He  allows  nations  and  petty  individuals  to  say:  “We  will 
not  have  this  man  to  reign  over  us.”  In  this  age  He 
allows  men  to  stand  in  seminary  and  college  and  read 
Him  out  of  the  Old  Testament ;  to  laugh  at  His  preten¬ 
sions  to  be  The  Suffering  One  in  the  53d  of  Isaiah;  to 
cut  and  curry  the  New  Testament;  to  reject  this,  cast  a 
sneer  at  that,  and  laugh  at  given  passages;  to  jeer  at  the 
blood  theory  as  a  low  barbaric  Hebrew  idea.  He  even 


ii  6 


THAT  JEW! 


lets  the  so-called  ministers  in  the  pulpits  speak  as  they 
please  about  Him,  think  as  they  please  about  Him,  pre¬ 
sent  Him  to  the  public  as  they  think  He  ought  to  be — 
not  as  He  is  revealed  in  the  written  Word.  But  such 
men  will  yet  be  reckoned  with  ;  God  will  yet  break  this 
silence.  “Our  God  shall  come,  and  shall  not  keep  silence.” 
God’s  silence  of  two  thousand  years  has  made  the  mod¬ 
ern  higher  critics  imagine  they  are  little  gods  themselves ; 
that  their  little  cup  of  brains  contains  the  knowledge  of 
the  universe.  They  are  insolent  in  their  blasphemies 
against  the  written  Word,  and  are  not  afraid  to  put  a 
lie  upon  God  The  Holy  Ghost.  But  God  writes:  “I 
kept  silence,  thou  thoughtest  that  I  was  altogether  such 
an  one  as  thyself.  Now  consider  this,  ye  that  forget  God, 
least  I  tare  you  in  pieces  and  there  be  none  to  deliver.” 

When  that  time  comes,  where  will  the  strutting  and 
cocksuredness  of  these  critics  be?  Poor  fools!  They 
shall  perish  in  the  devilish  folly  of  their  socalled  scholar¬ 
ship,  which  will  prove  a  very  quagmire  of  Satan — this 
coveted  name  of  “Scholar”  ! 

In  the  years  of  the  reign  of  The  Prince  of  Peace 
the  folly  of  sin  will  be  immediately  shown.  Justice  will 
not  be  seemingly  blind,  and  vengeance  will  not  slumber. 
That  law  is  most  pointed,  as  to  the  vengeance  that  will 
fall  on  the  nation  who  shall  refuse  to  send  representatives 
every  year  to  the  Feast  of  Tabernacles.  It  reads  as 
follows : 

“And  it  shall  come  to  pass  that  every  one  that  is  left  of 
all  the  nations  which  come  against  Jerusalem  shall  even 
go  up  from  year  to  year  to  worship  The  King,  The  Lord 
of  Hosts,  and  to  keep  the  feast  of  Tabernacles.” 

“And  it  shall  be,  that  whosoever  will  not  come  up 
of  all  the  families  of  the  earth  unto  Jerusalem  to  wor- 


THAT  JEW! 


n; 

ship  The  King,  The  Lord  of  Hosts,  even  upon  them 
shall  be  no  rain.” 

‘'And  if  the  family  of  Egypt  go  not  up,  and  come  not, 
that  have  no  rain:  there  shall  be  the  plague,  wherewith 
The  Lord  will  smite  the  heathen  that  come  not  up  to 
keep  the  feast  of  Tabernacles.” 

“This  shall  be  the  punishment  of  Egypt,  and  the  pun¬ 
ishment  of  all  nations  that  come  not  up  to  keep  the  feast 
of  Tabernacles.  Their  flesh  shall  consume  away  while 
they  stand  upon  their  feet,  and  their  eyes  shall  consume 
away  in  their  holes,  and  their  tongues  shall  consume  away 
in  their  mouth.” 

The  water  that  springs  up  at  the  Altar  of  Mount  Zion 
is  the  most  remarkable  stream  in  the  world.  Coming 
out  at  the  southern  part  of  the  altar  it  flows  down  the 
Mount,  seemingly  under  the  sanctuary,  and  comes  out 
under  the  threshold  of  the  gates  of  the  South  and  North 
ends.  At  the  first  few  gates  it  forms  but  a  small  stream, 
say  to  the  ankles,  but  soon,  when  the  streams  of  the  other 
gates  meet  the  waters  are  up  to  the  knees ;  when  the  last 
gate  pays  its  tribute  of  water,  the  waters  are  up  to  the 
loins.  When  the  streams  from  both  sides  meet,  the 
waters  have  grown  into  a  river  that  cannot  be  passed 
over:  “For  the  waters  were  risen,  waters  to  swim  in,  a 
river  that  could  not  be  passed  over.”  And  so  this  water, 
now  a  mighty  river,  flows  murmuringly  along  through  the 
portion  of  the  Levites,  through  the  portion  of  the  city  of 
Jerusalem  and  finally  pours  down  to  the  low  lands  in  a 
great  cascade — a  veritable  River  of  Life  wherever  it  goes. 

And  on  either  side  of  the  river,  caused  by  its  rich  benef¬ 
icence,  are  very  many  trees.  Trees  strong  in  every  limb 
and  knowing  not  decay;  fruit  trees  that  never  are  with¬ 
out  leaves,  buds,  blossoms  and  ripened  fruit.  When  the 


n8 


THAT  JEW! 


many  thousands  coming  and  going  daily,  from  one  end 
of  the  year  to  the  other,  visit  these  groves  by  the  river, 
they  ever  find  the  rarest,  richest  and  most  mellow  fruit 
ready  for  the  plucking,  each  month  having  its  own  fruits, 
and  never  a  mortal  who  comes  here  to  pluck  ever  turns 
away  disappointed.  If  thousands,  or  millions  come,  it 
matters  not.  The  fruit  is  ever  there  to  be  gathered.  And 
representatives  of  all  the  Nations  carry  away  the  leaves 
of  this  grove,  for  the  leaves  are  a  medicine  for  all  wounds 
and  sicknesses.  Night  and  day,  Winter  and  Summer,  one 
can  see  happy  throngs  of  people  of  all  sizes :  the  toddling 
child,  the  boy,  the  girl,  the  maiden,  the  youth,  the  man, 
the  woman.  And  like  giants  of  the  forest,  hale  and  hearty, 
vigorous  men  and  women,  that  reckon  their  years  by  hun¬ 
dreds,  walk  on  the  banks  along  this  river,  laughing,  and 
singing  songs  of  praise  to  the  Giver  of  these  fruits — 
fruits  that  never  decay. 

It  can  be  readily  observed  that  with  such  a  stream  flow¬ 
ing  before  the  North  and  South  entrances  it  would  be 
impossible  to  get  to  the  gateways  of  the  sanctuary  with¬ 
out  passing  through  the  water.  Therefore  the  dust  or 
dirt  that  may  be  on  the  feet  of  the  millions,  is  washed  off, 
before  they  enter  the  Courts.  Surely  a  most  wise  provi¬ 
sion  among  such  multitudes,  and  a  most  healthy  and 
restful  practice  for  each  individual. 


THAT  JEW! 


il9 


CHAPTER  XV 

A  HOUSE  OF  FEASTING  AND  OF  SONG 

Twenty-six  hundred  years  ago  Jehovah  by  the  mouth 
of  His  prophet  thus  spoke: 

“The  Levites  that  are  gone  away  far  from  Me,  when 
Israel  went  astray,  which  went  astray  away  from  Me 
after  their  idols :  they  shall  even  bear  their  iniquity.  Yet 
they  shall  be  ministers  of  My  Sanctuary  having  charge 
of  the  gates  of  the  house,  and  ministering  to  the  house: 
they  shall  be  ministers  in  My  Sanctuary  having  charge 
people,  and  they  shall  stand  before  them  to  minister  unto 
them.  Because  they  ministered  unto  them  before  their 
idols,  and  caused  the  house  of  Israel  to  fall  into  iniquity ; 
therefore  have  I  lifted  up  Mine  hand  against  them,  saith 
The  Lord  God,  and  they  shall  bear  their  iniquity.  And 
they  shall  not  come  near  unto  me,  to  execute  the  office 
of  priest  unto  me,  nor  to  come  near  to  any  of  my  holy 
things,  in  the  Most  Holy :  but  they  shall  bear  their  shame, 
and  their  abominations  which  they  have  committed.  But 
I  will  make  them  keepers  of  the  charge  of  the  house,  for 
all  the  service  thereof,  and  for  all  that  shall  be  done 
therein. 

“For  they  shall  eat  the  meat  offering,  and  the  sin  offer¬ 
ing,  and  the  trespass  offering ;  and  every  dedicated  thing 
in  Israel  shall  be  theirs.” 

It  will  therefore  be  noted  that  now  the  Levites  are 
thrust  out  by  Jehovah  himself  from  the  Priesthood. 
They  receive  the  animals  intended  for  sacrifices,  slay 
them  on  the  blocks  outside  the  North  side,  bring  them 


120 


THAT  JEW! 


into  the  flaying  tables  at  the  first  porch,  and  there  flay, 
and  make  ready  such  parts  as  are  to  be  offered  on  the 
altar.  They  bear  the  sacrificial  parts  to  the  edge  of 
the  Most  Holy — but  go  no  further.  There  stand  the 
sons  of  Zadok  (“Sons  of  The  Just  One”),  Risen 
Saints,  to  take  the  sacrifices,  and  offerings  of  every 
kind,  that  are  to  be  offered  and  burned  on  the  altar  on 
the  top  of  Mount  Zion. 

When  the  Levites  entered  the  North  and  South  Cham¬ 
bers  before  the  separate  places  (they  be  holy  chambers) 
they  are  always  clad  in  linen  garments ;  and  no  woolen 
garments  are  allowed  when  they  ministered  within ;  they 
have  linen  bonnets  on  their  heads,  and  linen  breeches 
upon  their  loins,  neither  shall  they  gird  themselves  with 
anything  that  causeth  sweat.  But  when  they  go  into 
the  outer  court  to  the  people,  they  put  off  their  linen 
garments  wherein  they  ministered,  lay  them  in  the  holy 
chambers  and  put  on  other  clothing.  All  the  ministra¬ 
tions  of  the  house  of  whatever  description  are  under  the 
control  of  the  Levites,  with  the  exception  of  ministra¬ 
tions  within  the  circle  of  the  Most  Holy.  They  are  the 
guardians,  care-takers,  servants  of  every  detail ;  divided 
into  courses  for  various  hours,  that  each  course  may 
relieve  the  other,  for  the  gates  of  this  sanctuary  are 
never  closed.  There  is  no  night  there,  but  always  a  per¬ 
fect  day.  During  the  day  the  sun  gives  its  mellow  light, 
and  at  night  the  rays  of  The  King’s  Palace  overhead, 
and  the  flashings  of  The  Glory  Cloud,  resting  ever  over 
the  Most  Holy  Place,  make  every  nook  and  corner  of 
the  structure  as  bright  as  day.  There  is  therefore  no 
cessation  of  Praise  and  Prayer  in  this  house. 

Besides  the  course  of  the  Levites  and  men  occupied  in 
the  various  offices,  the  house  always  has  in  its  corridors 


THAT  JEW! 


121 


and  cellae  bands  of  Risen  Saints,  constantly  coming 
and  going  on  errands  to  the  most  distant  places  of  the 
Globe.  The  Saints  never  feel  the  want  of  sleep;  like 
their  Risen  Lord,  they  are  ever  awake,  constantly  fur¬ 
thering  the  wishes  and  desires  of  Their  King. 

Then  we  see  this  house  ever  open,  ever  full  of  restless, 
but  calm  and  peaceful,  activity.  Guests  from  all  over 
the  world  are  constantly  arriving  and  departing.  Then, 
while  the  glory  of  the  house  during  the  day  is  great,  the 
beauties  of  the  place  at  night  are  no  less  attractive. 

The  Levites  meet  the  visitors  at  the  doors,  make  them 
welcome,  inquire  as  to  what  is  wanted  or  desired,  and 
direct  them  to  such  places  of  the  house  as  they  wished 
to  visit.  Then  the  hungry  are  to  be  fed  night  and  day, 
the  weary  are  to  be  conducted  where  they  may  rest, 
while  to  others  is  shown  the  glory  of  the  place.  The 
Levites  also  are  the  singers ;  for  this  house  has  ever  the 
sound  of  music  and  song  in  its  corridors  and  cellae.  All 
musical  instruments  the  world  over  are  to  be  found  here, 
with  trained  artists  to  render  perfect  harmony,  with 
trained  voices  for  praise,  for  never  a  jar  or  a  discord 
comes  here,  only  perfection  dwells  within  these  walls. 
Therefore  night  and  day  the  voice  of  melody  attuned  to 
praise  is  never  silent. 

And  here,  too,  come  singers  from  the  Home  of  the 
Risen  Saints,  so  that  mortal  ears  may  listen  to  some  of 
the  heavenly  melodies,  first  composed  and  heard  on  the 
banks  of  the  Beautiful  River  in  the  New  Jerusalem; 
the  home  prepared  for  the  Risen  Saints  by  the  loving 
heart  of  The  Lord  Christ. 

For  now  is  fulfilled,  indeed,  the  promise  LIe  made  to 
His  disciples  on  the  evening  of  betrayal :  “I  go  to  pre¬ 
pare  a  place  for  you.  And  if  I  go  and  prepare  a  place 


122 


THAT  JEW! 


for  you  I  will  come  again,  and  receive  you  unto  myself 
that  where  I  am,  there  ye  may  be  also.”  So  for  two 
thousand  years  His  heart  taught  His  fingers  how  to 
fashion  that  marvelous  Palace  of  His  Love,  a  Palace  of 
precious  stones.  Then  when  He  came  back  He  brought 
that  Mansion  with  Him.  Called  His  beloved  dead  from 
their  graves,  changed  the  living,  and  took  them  to  the 
Banquet  Chamber  in  the  New  Jerusalem,  where  was 
held  the  Marriage  Supper  of  The  Lamb;  the  first  bodily 
meeting  between  Christ  and  His  Saints.  And  so,  now, 
suspended  in  the  air  directly  covering  the  entire  Holy 
Land — aye,  stretching  fifteen  hundred  miles  in  length, 
and  fifteen  hundred  miles  in  breadth,  fifteen  hundred 
miles  high — yet  only  faintly  revealed  to  the  eyes  of  the 
dwellers  of  the  Earth — it  stands,  the  Home  of  the  Saints. 
Jacob’s  ladder  at  last ;  for  the  Risen  Saints  are  constantly 
coming  and  going  from  the  upper  to  the  lower  Jerusalem. 

The  Levites  also  are  Teachers  of  the  People  who  come 
to  the  Sanctuary,  for  we  read:  “And  they  shall  teach 
My  People  the  difference  between  the  holy  and  the  pro¬ 
fane,  and  cause  them  to  discern  between  the  unclean  and 
the  clean.  And  in  controversy  they  shall  stand  in  judg¬ 
ment:  and  they  shall  judge  it  according  to  My  judgment: 
and  they  shall  keep  My  Laws  and  My  Statutes  in  Mine 
Assemblies;  and  they  shall  hallow  My  Sabbaths.” 

The  Levites  have  as  a  possession  twenty  cellae,  and 
also  a  magnificent  piece  of  country  between  the  Sanctu¬ 
ary  and  the  City — a  tract  twenty-two  miles  by  fifty-seven 
miles,  where  stand  their  various  dwelling  places,  amid 
beautiful  gardens  and  groves.  The  Levites  are  supported 
entirely  by  the  free  will  offerings  at  the  Temple — their 
only  labor  being  their  ministrations  at  The  Sanctuary. 
And  surely  with  The  Lord  Christ  as  their  Provider, 


THAT  JEW! 


123 


and  the  entire  world  giving  gifts — they  lack  for  no  good 
thing. 

As  some  twenty-five  miles  lie  between  The  City  and 
the  Sanctuary,  of  a  necessity  some  provision  must  be 
made  for  feeding  the  many  thousands  that  daily  thronged 
the  Sanctuary.  Jehovah  wants  no  hungry  crowd  to 
worship  before  Him.  And  as  it  is  indeed  The  House  of 
Prayer  for  all  people  (that  is,  for  all  the  nations  and  peo¬ 
ples  of  the  Earth)  surely  not  an  inhabitant  of  the  Globe 
but  will  wish  earnestly  to  see  The  King  In  His  Beauty 
— and  to  receive  an  individual  blessing  at  His  hand.  And 
the  provision  for  their  reception  is  clearly  set  forth  by  the 
Prophet  Isaiah:  “In  this  mountain  shall  The  Lord  of 
Hosts  make  unto  all  people  a  feast  of  fat  things,  a  feast 
of  wines  on  the  lees,  of  fat  things  full  of  marrow,  of 
wines  on  the  lees  well  refined.” 

Man  is  of  the  earth — and  human  flesh  is  just  as  pre¬ 
cious  to  its  Maker  as  the  soul,  therefore  its  Maker  will 
not  only  provide  good  things  for  the  soul  of  man,  but 
likewise  will  provide  good  things  to  satisfy  the  God  given 
appetites  of  men  and  women,  in  this  sanctuary  where 
The  Creature  and  The  Creator  can  meet  face  to  face, 
and  converse  with  each  other.  It  is  absurd  to  think  that 
God  can  hold  flesh  in  contempt — in  fact  it  was  the  Spirit , 
the  Soul ,  that  first  contaminated  the  flesh. 

Now  the  four  corner  courts  are  of  wonderful  archi¬ 
tecture,  imparting  a  most  magnificent  appearance  to  the 
entire  structure. 

And  in  the  Towers  The  Heavenly  Architect  made 
ample  provision  of  space  to  cook  food  for  the  millions 
of  guests ;  four  courts,  each  360  feet  square,  afford 
kitchens  ample  enough  to  prepare  a  feast  of  fat  things. 

These  are  the  places  where  the  priests  boiled  the  tres- 


124 


THAT  JEW! 


pass  offering  and  the  sin  offering;  where  also  they  bake 
the  meat  offering,  for  in  the  corners  of  the  courts  are 
courts  of  smoking,  forty  feet  long  and  thirty  feet  broad, 
made  with  boiling  places  under  the  rows  round  about. 
These  are  the  places  of  them  that  boil,  where  the  minis¬ 
ters  of  the  house  shall  boil  the  sacrifices.  Let  us  add, 
large  kitchens,  where  the  meat  is  cooked,  and  bread 
baked,  to  make  a  feast  of  fat  things,  for  the  many  thou¬ 
sands  that  each  day  sit  down  at  the  tables,  to  eat  of  the 
bread,  and  meat,  and  to  drink  of  the  wine  provided  by 
The  King  of  the  whole  Earth. 

The  King’s  Larder  will  never  be  empty — willing 
hearts  and  hands  will  bring  an  abundance  of  all  good 
things  to  the  Sanctuary.  Jehovah  Christ,  who  blesses 
the  entire  world,  making  the  store  house  and  the  basket 
of  every  human  full  to  overflowing,  but  not  to  wasting, 
will  have  plenty  of  willing  minds  to  give  Him  of  the 
first  fruits.  “All  the  flocks  of  Kedar  shall  be  gathered 
together  unto  thee,  the  rams  of  Nebaioth  shall  minister 
unto  thee.”  So  the  pasture  lands,  set  apart  below  the 
temple,  will  ever  have  a  fatted  calf  for  the  guest;  the 
bin  will  ever  be  full  of  the  finest  flour;  the  vats  will 
always  be  full  of  the  richest  wines. 

(Never  will  a  being  hungry  from  compulsion  of  pov¬ 
erty  stand  here  in  the  presence  of  Jehovah.)  And 
we  may  be  positive  no  person  ragged,  unwashed,  or  un¬ 
suitably  clad,  will  ever  tread  the  Courts  of  the  Sanctuary. 
Jehovah  Christ  will  open  His  hands  and  satisfy  the 
desires  (proper  desires)  of  every  living  thing — mark 
the  word — not  the  human,  but  every  living  thing,  bird, 
fish,  and  animal.  Ample  provision  for  the  well  being  of 
all  things  mark  The  Reign  of  The  Prince  of  Peace. 

Christians  who  foolishly  condemn  the  flesh — con- 


THAT  JEW! 


125 


stantly  bewailing  its  shortcomings  and  sinfulness — wish¬ 
ing  to  be  pure  spirit  and  be  rid  of  the  flesh,  fail  to  see 
that  the  Redemption  of  Christ  was  for  Body ,  Soul  and 
Spirit.  For  the  body  is  just  as  precious  in  the  sight  of 
God  as  the  Soul  and  Spirit — all  Redeemed  from  Death 
by  the  Blood  of  The  Lamb. 

And  there  is  ample  room  in  The  Sanctuary  to  feed 
thousands,  for  surely  in  those  delightful  sheltered  gal¬ 
leries  in  the  outer  court  in  those  three  upper  stories  of 
the  building  which  flank  the  outside  wall,  ample  provi¬ 
sion  will  exist.  “These  galleries  contain  rooms  each 
averaging  80  feet  in  length  and  about  50  feet  in  width. 
They  have  in  front  a  terrace  running  the  whole  length 
of  the  outer  court,  between  the  corner  courts  of  kitchens, 
from  which  along  the  galleries  the  food  would  quickly 
come.  There  would  be  74  of  these  rooms  on  each  level, 
or  222  on  the  outside  of  one  of  the  outer  courts  alone. 
These  figures  must  be  multiplied  by  4  and  we  get  888 
dining  rooms.  We  may  well  forbear  to  figure  out  the 
number  of  people  who  could  be  entertained  in  such  a 
suite  of  rooms — we  may  safely  say  300,000  to  400,000  at 
one  setting.”  (See  Sulley.) 

And  in  the  magnificent  Cellae  is  ample  space  for 
Courts  of  Justice.  Here  are  the  thrones  where  the  twelve 
Apostles,  resurrected  and  made  in  the  Image  of  The 
Risen  Man,  shall  judge.  Not  that  every  petty  offense 
is  brought  before  the  Sanctuary  Tribunal;  but  when 
complicated  cases  cannot  be  settled  satisfactorily  before 
mortal  Judges,  or  whenever  appeal  is  made  by  one  of 
the  parties  to  Jerusalem  for  final  Judgment — the  con¬ 
testants  come  here  and  the  judgment  of  The  Risen  Saints 
is  final,  for  they  judge  righteous  judgment.  And  the 
Prophecy  must  be  fulfilled:  “For  there  are  set  the 


126 


THAT  JEW ! 


thrones  of  judgment,  the  thrones  of  the  House  of 
David.” 

Mr.  Sulley  of  England  in  his  most  fascinating  and 
instructive  book,  “Temple  of  Ezekiel's  Prophecy,  re¬ 
marks  on  this  head :  “The  buildings  composing  the  cir¬ 
cle  band  are  so  arranged  that  each  double  entrance  or 
porch  gives  access  to  a  space  about  thirty-two  feet  wide, 
which  can  be  screened  off  from  similar  spaces  all  round 
the  house.  There  would  be  three  hundred  and  eighty- 
nine  of  these  courts  on  the  ground  floor,  and  if  they 
are  three  stories  high,  the  number  would  be  one  thou¬ 
sand,  one  hundred  and  sixty-seven.  Whatever  the  num¬ 
ber,  surely  there  will  not  be  too  many.  The  administra¬ 
tion  of  justice  at  the  head  center  of  the  whole  earth  will 
involve  adequate  provisions  for  the  necessities  of  the 
case.” 

“At  that  time  they  shall  call  Jerusalem  The  Throne  of 
The  Lord:  and  all  the  nations  shall  be  gathered  unto 
it,  to  the  name  of  The  Lord,  to  Jerusalem.” 

One  great  fact  looms  up  before  the  view  of  every 
person  entering  in  at  the  north  side  of  the  house — One 
Great  Scriptural  Truth  is  brought  forcibly  to  the  mind: 

“Without  shedding  of  Blood  there  is  no  Remission 
of  Sin!" 

There  are  eleven  gateways,  and  at  each  are  four  slay¬ 
ing  blocks,  two  on  either  side,  making  forty-four  blocks 
in  all,  on  which  are  the  slaying  weapons  to  be  used  in 
taking  the  lives  of  the  animals  that  are  to  be  burned 
wholly,  or  in  part,  on  the  altar  on  top  of  Mount  Zion. 
For  the  Great  Doctrine  of  Substitution  is  the  ground 
rock  on  which  alone  must  rest  the  hopes  of  man  for  sal¬ 
vation  from  eternal  death — and  the  central  fact  of 
Christ’s  atonement  for  sinners  is  the  only  ground  on 


THAT  JEW! 


127 

which  a  mortal  man  can  look  into  the  face  of  Jehovah 
and  live. 

Christ’s  great  sacrifice  once  made  is  final — sufficient 
to  meet  the  requirements  of  God’s  Law  through  the  end¬ 
less  Ages  of  Eternity  for  every  one  to  be  born  of  the 
seed  of  Adam. 

But  the  heart  of  sinning  Human  Nature  is  such,  that 
it  requires  a  constant  reminder  of  the  fact,  that  it  lives 
solely  because  another  hath  died  that  it  might  live.  The 
pride  of  the  heart  is  such  that  it  soon  forgets  its  own 
innate  wickedness  and  dares  to  be  on  an  equality  with 
God — not  seeing  why  God  is  more  Holy  than  itself. 

(This  is  the  secret  of  the  higher  critic’s  hate  to  the 
Old  Testament — Sacrifice  for  sin  is  too  clearly  taught  in 
the  Mosaic  writings,  they  would  therefore  make  them 
for  the  most  part  nothing  more  than  forgeries  of  a  much 
later  date.  And  this  is  why  they  read  Christ  out  of  the 
53d  of  Isaiah.  This  is  the  reason  why  they  hate  the 
Epistles  of  Paul  and  of  Peter,  and  would  deceive  the 
masses  by  their  cry :  “Back  to  the  Christ  of  the  Gospels  !” 

Surely  they  have  committed  the  sin  against  The  Holy 
Ghost — as  they  deny  the  testimony  of  the  Spirit  of 
Christ  in  the  Old  Testament,  so  they  make  Him  a  liar.) 

So  then  in  the  age  of  The  Prince  of  Peace  it  pleased 
God  to  restore  the  sacrifices  as  a  memorial  service — to 
keep  constantly  before  the  mind  of  humanity,  that  man 
is  a  sinner  and  cannot  approach  a  Holy  God  except 
through  the  Shed  Life — Blood  of  The  Mediator. 

“Horrible !”  I  can  hear  some  say  when  they  read 
these  passages.  But,  dear,  reader,  pause  and  think,  before 
you  scorn  to  believe  The  Spirit’s  testimony  on  these 
Sacrificial  Ceremonies,  that  it  hath  pleased  God  to  ap¬ 
point  ;  sacrifices  that  shall  last  at  least  a  thousand  years. 


128 


THAT  JEW! 


Is  the  Shed-Blood  repulsive  to  your  mind — and  the 
“Butcher  Blood  Theory”  an  abhorrence?  Then  knowest 
thou  that  thy  heart  is  in  rebellion  against  God,  and  that 
thou  art  in  the  way  of  Cain,  who  scorning  the  thought 
of  bringing  Shed-Blood,  dared  to  think  the  works  of 
his  own  hands,  the  fruits  of  his  own  toil,  were  good 
enough  for  God  to  accept — thereby  imagining  he  knew 
more  than  God.  Dear  reader,  in  this  matter  of  sacri¬ 
fices  do  not  be  wiser  than  The  Spirit — for  whether  you 
like  it  or  not,  IT  IS  A  FACT — because  it  is  revealed  in 
God’s  Word. 

Here  then  is  a  Flome  of  Feasting  and  of  Song.  A 
resting  Place — a  “quiet  resting  place,”  where  the  fret 
and  worry  of  Earthly  Life  may  be  forgotten  quite — and 
where  the  presence  of  Eternal  Beings  will  show  how 
foolish  to  weary  Soul  and  Spirit  by  fretting  on  some 
trifling,  passing  care.  The  Eternal  Abiding  Place  so 
clear  to  human  eye — meeting  and  greeting  one  on  every 
side — overshadowing,  belittling  the  present  as  it  were, 
until  men  see  the  folly  and  the  sin  of  fretting. 

Here  then  the  Home  of  Peace — neither  sorrow  nor 
care,  nor  fretting,  nor  mourning,  nor  crying,  nor  sigh¬ 
ing,  can  here  abide.  Here  where  The  Risen  Saints  are 
ever  meeting  humanity  for  sweet  communion,  ever  teach¬ 
ing,  ever  singing  and  making  glad  melody  to  gladden 
and  lift  up  the  human  to  the  light  and  fellowship  of 
God. 

The  Voice  of  Song,  Melody  and  Praise  ever  sounding 
in  its  Courts. 

And  here  The  Blessed  One  is  ever  willing  to  meet, 
to  greet,  and  bless  the  simplest  one  born  of  woman. 

May  His  name  be  blessed  forever ! 

Amen,  Amen  and  Amen. 


THAT  JEW! 


129 


CHAPTER  XVI 

THE  CITY  OF  THE  GREAT  KING 

When  our  ever  Blessed  Redeemer,  then  sojourning 
on  earth  in  humiliation,  called  Jerusalem  The  City  of 
The  Great  King — no  doubt  there  was  before  His 
vision  the  city  that  was  to  be,  when  He  should  reign  as 
Prince  of  the  Kings  of  the  Earth. 

Now  it  stands  a  city  glorious  to  behold — and  surely 
worthy  of  its  King. 

Built  on  the  high  tableland — a  city  set  on  the  hill  that 
can  not  be  hid — it  stands,  The  One  Perfect  City  of  the 
World — a  pattern  for  all  earth’s  builders ;  for  the  plans 
and  specifications  in  general  were  given  by  The  Lord 
Christ  Himself.  The  sewerage  is  perfect — the  water 
supply  more  than  abundant — and  these  two  blessings 
help  to  make  any  city  vigorously  healthy.  Indeed  this 
is  the  most  healthy  of  all — for  not  one  of  its  regular 
inhabitants  has  cause  to  say,  “I  am  sick!”  and  there  is 
no  dying  in  Jerusalem,  no  mourning  in  Jerusalem,  no 
sick  bed  in  Jerusalem,  no  beggars  in  Jerusalem,  no  poorly 
clad  person  in  Jerusalem !  And  every  one  of  its  inhab¬ 
itants  is  “born  again” — one  and  all  being  most  perfect 
specimens  of  humanity;  for  both  bodily  and  spiritually 
they  are  sound  men,  women  and  children.  No  wicked 
person  can  dwell  in  Jerusalem.  The  words  are  literally 
true,  “No  wicked  person  shall  tarry  in  My  sight.” 

And  most  wonderful,  David,  the  son  of  Jesse,  the 
Sweet  Singer  of  Israel,  the  Risen  Saint,  lives  and  reigns 


130 


THAT  JEW! 


in  Jerusalem.  Every  one  knows  of  His  royal  palace — 
for  the  mightiest  kings  of  the  earth  come  to  shake  hands 
with  him,  who  now  in  every  thought,  act,  desire  and 
wish,  is  a  man  after  God’s  own  heart.  Jerusalem  was 
ever  dear  to  His  heart  when  as  a  saved  Sinner  he  lived 
on  earth — and  now  he  beholds  it,  in  its  matchless  beauty 
and  surely  he  takes  pleasure  in  its  stones. 

This  city  is  built  out  of  the  most  enduring  materials; 
the  rarest  colored,  and  hardest  stone  is  in  every  public 
and  private  dwelling — for  each  builder  knew  he  was 
building  a  house  to  be  inhabited  as  his  own  for  a  thou¬ 
sand  years  at  the  very  least.  There  are  many  kinds  of 
buildings  suitable  for  various  purposes.  Business  houses, 
public  and  private  houses,  houses  of  amusement,  and 
dwelling  places,  all  approved  of  by  the  Great  Architect, 
for  they  serve  as  perfect  models  from  which  the  dwellers 
on  the  earth  may  take  pattern.  And  every  street  is  a 
place  of  broad  stretches  with  trees  for  shade;  and  a 
flowing  stream  fed  from  The  Royal  River,  sings  softly 
in  every  street.  All  dwelling  places  are  open  on  every 
side  to  the  sun.  There  are  no  unsightly  rows  of  never 
ending  brick  walls  lined  up  along  narrow  streets,  with 
alleys  behind  that  send  a  stench  heavenward  to  destroy 
the  healthy  air,  making  it  foul  and  a  breeder  of  disease. 

No  crowded  tenement  houses  are  there;  no  broken 
windows,  filthy  alleys,  nor  miserable,  unpainted  hovels. 
Thank  God,  the  Ghetto  has  forever  passed  away ! 

And  here  business  is  conducted  on  strictly  righteous 
and  honest  principles — no  swerving  either  to  the  right 
or  the  left.  The  trading  is  perfectly  legitimate,  all  above 
board — with  no  Board  of  Trade. 

The  merchants  here  are  indeed  the  Great  Ones  in  the 
Earth.  Their  cost  and  selling  prices  seen  by  every  one 


THAT  JEW! 


131 

who  so  desires;  for  in  Jerusalem  there  is  no  speculation 
of  any  kind ;  no  buying  cheap  and  selling  dear ;  no  buy¬ 
ing  up  of  an  article  to  make  it  scarce,  the  buyer  being 
the  dictator  of  its  value.  No  monopolies,  no  Trusts  are 
in  Jerusalem.  It  surely  is  in  this  case,  “Jerusalem  the 
Blessed !”  No  speculators,  no  men  of  “Giant  Intellects,” 
“Keen  Business  Instincts,”  nor  “Shrewd  Operators”  are 
here.  Such  men  could  not  abide  one  hour  in  Jerusalem— 
for  their  methods  are  abhorred  by  Christ.  And  should 
they  go  elsewhere,  to  a  foreign  country  to  operate — they 
would  soon  find  a  Risen  Saint  at  their  side — to  reason 
with  them  first  in  love,  then  in  stern  warning,  and  then 
if  they  persisted  in  their  monopolizing  interests,  would 
come  sure  and  sudden  death.  “Trade  Monsters,”  the 
Wild  Beasts  of  Commerce,  are  now  unknown— and 
surely  none  dwelt  at  Jerusalem. 

There  is  an  honest  margin  of  gain  everywhere— the 
farmer  sells  his  produce  at  such  a  price — he  sells  it  when 
ready  for  market — not  holding  it  to  see  if  it  will  gain  in 
value.  The  middle  man  pays  an  honest  price,  and  sells 
the  product  to  consumer,  merchant  and  manufacturer,  at 
a  fair  and  reasonable  gain — the  amount  being  known  to 
seller  and  buyer.  And  the  manufacturer  purchases— 
knowing  well  that  when  his  goods  are  ready  to  sell  he 
will  have  a  certain  percentage  of  profit.  No  man  fears 
the  market  fluctuations,  no  manufacturer  need  suffer  a 
loss  unless  by  his  own  carelessness.  Carelessness  alone 
is  the  bane  of  trading  under  the  reign  of  The  Prince  of 
Peace.  If  differences  arise  in  trading — both  parties  go 
to  “The  Risen  Saint,”  in  whose  district  they  are— and 
Righteous  Judgment  is  given.  It  is  vain  now  for  man 
to  try  to  wrong  a  fellowman ;  for  no  sooner  does  the 
man  who  suffered  the  wrong  make  complaint  before  The 


132 


THAT  JEW / 


Risen  Saint,  than  the  doer  of  the  wrong  is  called  to 
answer  the  charge. 

And  there  are  honest  wages:  a  certain  employment 
commands  certain  wages — the  wages  being  passed  on  by  a 
Risen  Saint — so  that  combinations  of  labor  workers  are 
unknown.  No  strikes  are  allowed,  and  no  employer  is 
permitted  to  show  spleen,  or  dares  to  crush  the  employee, 
no  matter  how  humble  his  capacity. 

The  dream  of  earth’s  dreamers  is  at  last  a  reality.  How 
often  in  the  Gospel  age,  communities  were  formed  on  a 
basis  of  equality  to  work  out  a  redemption  for  humanity 
— all,  alas,  bitter  failures — for  such  people  never  calcu¬ 
lated  on — Sin!  The  absence  of  the  grace  of  God  always 
was  the  fatal  defect  in  their  Utopian  Dreams  of  a  Para¬ 
dise  on  a  fallen  Earth  before  the  arrival  of  the  ever 
Blessed  Christ! 

The  Grace  of  God  alone  can  place  Capital  and  Labor 
on  a  true  foundation — a  foundation  of  loving  trust  in 
each  other.  This  is  now  fully  verified  in  Jerusalem — 
where  Capital  and  Labor  work  harmoniously  together, 
with  a  minimum  of  friction.  Hence,  satisfied  labor  know¬ 
ing  that  it  is  obtaining  a  just  reward,  puts  its  heart  and 
soul  even  into  the  very  lowest  occupation.  And  then  there 
is  no  fierce  competition — for  now  indeed  the  laborer 
stands  not  idle  all  day  in  the  market  place,  and  is  never 
troubled  by  the  fear  of  starvation.  The  mother  earth 
responds  to  little  toil  and  gives  forth  unceasingly  its 
hundred  folds,  for  God  has  lifted  up  the  Curse  and  the 
World  is  a  Paradise — and  expanse  of  trees  and  flowers 
instead  of  a  waste  and  howling  wilderness  of  sand,  cac¬ 
tus  and  sage  brush,  while  weeds  and  thorns  no  longer 
have  the  mastery.  The  earth  is  a  most  bountiful  re¬ 
warder  of  all  toil. 


THAT  JEW! 


133 


And  Jerusalem  in  reality,  and  in  fact,  is  The  Centre 
Place  of  the  Earth ;  the  World’s  Great  Mart  for  all  kinds 
of  Merchandise.  Bills  of  Exchange  are  payable  at  Jer¬ 
usalem — for  the  Jews  are  still  the  Bankers  of  the  Earth. 
But  no  longer  are  they  grasping  and  avaricious,  over 
reaching,  domineering  and  covetous ;  for  The  Grace  of 
Christ  has  made  them  perfect  in  all  their  dealings,  and 
they  no  longer  prey  on  the  Gentiles.  Jerusalem  now 
dictates  the  price  of  Merchandise,  the  prices  of  the  na¬ 
tions  being  based  on  what  an  article  will  bring  in  Jer¬ 
usalem. 

The  Lord  Christ  is  teaching  the  nations  how  com¬ 
merce  can  be  indeed  a  channel  of  blessing.  The  hyenas 
of  the  race  have  perished — and  one  who  dares  to  wrong 
his  neighbor  is  soon  convicted  of  his  infamy.  No  longer 
can  a  man  plot,  plan,  and  lay  snares  of  trading  for  the 
simplest  brother :  no  longer  are  values  depressed,  nor  are 
they  placed  at  fictitious  heights.  “A  Bull  and  Bear” 
are  utterly  abhorrent  to  the  mind  of  the  Lord  Christ, 
and  quick  recompense  of  vengeance  comes  on  the  head 
of  such. 

Jerusalem  has  neither  lock,  nor  bar,  nor  bolt  in  all  its 
borders  for  fear  of  thieving — No  Prisons,  nor  Station 
Houses  are  in  Jerusalem.  Jerusalem  never  sees  a  Po¬ 
liceman  on  her  streets.  With  all  the  traffic  of  her  sea¬ 
ports — with  her  miles  upon  miles  of  wharfs  and  docks, 
yet  there  are  no  custom  house,  no  excise  men.  There  are 
no  Saloons  in  Jerusalem;  no  drunken  men  in  Jerusalem; 
and  a  smoker  of  tobacco  is  indeed  a  rare  object. 

Peace,  quietness  and  assurance  reign  in  all  the  borders 
of  Jerusalem. 

And  then  Her  Wonderful,  Royal  River!  After 
meandering  through  the  city,  it  runs  over  the  falls  in 


134 


THAT  JEW! 


one  grand  cascade,  it  glides  very  gently  along  without 
dash  and  roar,  forming  on  the  low  land  below  a  magnifi¬ 
cent  pool  of  vast  extent  where  the  waters  part,  half  flow¬ 
ing  to  the  east,  half  to  the  west.  And  this  wonderful 
Life  Giving  River  makes  Jerusalem  the  Queen  City  of 
the  Seas. 

The  eastern  portion  meanders  across  what  was  for¬ 
merly  the  desert  lying  between  Palestine  and  the  River 
Euphrates.  But  this  is  no  longer  a  drear  sand  waste — 
with  its  wild  beasts  of  prey,  its  coiling  serpents,  its  mir¬ 
ages,  and  utter  desolation.  Now  the  river  brings  life  to 
tree,  to  bush,  to  grass  and  flowers — making  great  fields 
of  wheat,  and  maize,  and  every  cereal  with  which  High 
Heaven  blesses  the  richest  soils  of  earth.  The  bound¬ 
aries  of  the  land  as  given  by  Jehovah  to  Abraham  are 
now  for  the  first  time  occupied  by  the  children  of  Israel 
— namely  from  the  Great  Sea  to  the  River  Euphrates, 
some  300,000  square  miles.  The  allotments  of  seven 
tribes  being  north  of  the  Holy  Oblation,  the  other  five 
being  south.  Therefore  the  desert  has  been  rapidly  re¬ 
claimed.  The  change  in  the  atmosphere  when  the  Lord 
Christ  came  back,  the  new  streams  that  rose  to  the  sur¬ 
face  of  the  great  earthquake,  and  the  lifting  of  the  Curse, 
have  changed  the  desert  to  a  fruitful  plain.  In  fact  it 
will  be  readily  observed  from  what  has  just  been  writ¬ 
ten,  that  the  earthquake  at  His  coming  had  changed  en¬ 
tirely  the  physical  features  of  Palestine;  had  lifted  up 
vast  tracts  of  this  and  the  surrounding  country  so  that 
in  reality  it  is  a  strange,  new  land  from  that  of  the  former 
years. 

The  coming  of  the  Royal  River  in  the  former  desert 
has  made  it  now  to  bloom  and  blossom  as  the  rose.  Towns 


THAT  JEW! 


135 


and  villages  have  sprung  up,  houses  are  embowered  in 
trees,  and  scattered  over  all,  is  grain,  grass  and  flowers 
in  tropical  profusion.  Laughter  and  song  abound  where 
once  were  the  roars  and  screams  of  beasts  of  prey ;  peace, 
where  once  was  savage  warfare.  True,  the  lion  is  still 
there,  but  now  eating  straw  like  the  ox ;  the  bear  and 
her  cubs  are  there,  but  feeding  quietly  in  the  pastures 
with  the  cattle;  the  wolf  and  lamb  lap  the  same  streams, 
fur  and  wool  side  by  side ;  the  serpent  is  there,  but  the 
laughing  youth  takes  it  in  his  hand,  wrapping  the 
coils  around  himself  and  the  blushing  maiden  of  his 
choice,  so  that  both  are  enfolded  by  the  glistening  coils 
of  the  beautiful,  harmless  creature — as  by  a  betrothal 
ring. 

And  as  this  Royal  River  flows  into  the  Euphrates,  be¬ 
hold  1 — a  waterway  on  whose  bosom  come  ships  from 
the  sun-kissed  continents  and  islands  of  the  Orient  lad- 
ended  with  merchandise,  and  bearing  visitors  to  the  City 
of  The  Great  King. 

And  that  part  of  the  Royal  River  which  flows  west¬ 
ward,  down  to  the  Dead  Sea,  has  so  healed  it,  that  its 
waters  are  filled  with  all  such  fishes  as  swarm  in  the 
Great  Sea.  The  bed  of  the  Jordan  has  been  lifted  up 
until  its  water  flow  down  the  old  channel  of  earlier  ages 
into  the  Red  Sea ;  and  behold !  through  the  estuary  of 
the  Great  Sea  at  Joppa,  sail  gallant  vessels  from  the 
Great  Sea  down  the  river  to  the  Red  Sea,  and  so  are  the 
Occident  and  the  Orient  wedded  at  Jerusalem. 

And  the  Dead  Sea  is  no  longer  dead,  but  instead  a 
place  where  fishers  have  no  need  of  toiling  all  night  and 
catching  nothing — for  the  fish  according  to  their  kinds  are 
exceedingly  many.  And  here  are  never-failing  salt  mines ; 


136 


THAT  JEW! 


for  some  miry  places  and  marches  were  not  healed  by 
the  flow  of  the  Royal  River,  but  still  remain  in  all  their 
wealth  of  salt  to  bless  humanity.  And  on  either  side 
of  this  once  barren,  bitter,  lifeless  lake  now  flourish 
groves  of  trees,  the  very  beauty  of  the  earth,  trees  of 
meat,  “whose  leaf  shall  not  fade,  neither  shall  the  fruit 
thereof  fail  in  abundance;  they  shall  bring  forth  new 
fruit  according  to  the  months,  the  fruit  thereof  shall  be 
for  meat  and  the  leaf  thereof  for  medicine. ” 

And  now  one  can  fully  realize  the  exact  fulfillment  of 
the  words  of  The  Lord  Christ,  spoken  in  the  days  of 
His  humiliation.  The  woes  uttered  by  Him  against 
Capernaum,  Chorazin,  Bethsaida,  have  been  truly  ful¬ 
filled — for  these  cities  that  had  rejected  Him,  despised 
His  teachings,  and  were  unconvinced  by  His  miracles, 
have  never  been  rebuilt.  Instead,  their  former  site  is 
covered  by  the  blue  waters  of  the  Sea  of  Galilee — while 
Sodom  and  Gomorrah  have  arisen  from  the  dead  waters 
once  more  to  be  rebuilt,  their  borders  inhabited,  and 
their  sites  and  surroundings  blest  in  a  most  wonderful 
manner. 

See  the  vast  quays,  and  wharfs,  and  landing  places, 
along  the  seacoast,  where  a  thousand  ships  float  in  the 
offing,  unloading  and  loading,  coming  from,  and  going 
to,  every  port  of  entry  around  the  vast  globe. 

Here  thousands  land  every  day  from  sea  craft  of  all 
descriptions,  going  up  to  the  City  of  The  Great  King — 
for  Jerusalem  has  become  the  “Star  of  the  World,”  and 
now  called — 

Jehovah-Shammah — 

The  Lord  Is  There. 


THAT  JEW! 


137 


“Blessed  be  The  Lord  God,  The  God  of  Israel,  who 
doeth  wondrous  things. 

“And  Blessed  be  His  Glorious  Name  forever :  and 
let  the  whole  earth  be  filled  with  His  Glory.” 

Amen  and  Amen. 


The  End. 


138 


THAT  JEW! 


THE  SONG  OF  A  RISEN  SAINT. 


O  Wonderful,  Wonderful  City !  How  often  in  the 
days  of  our  first  sojourn  on  the  earth  have  our  hearts 
cried  out  for  thee :  for  our  eyes  to  see,  our  feet  to  tread 
thy  streets,  O  fair  and  matchless  City  of  our  best  desires 
— Jerusalem ! 

How  often  in  the  days  of  our  first  sojourn  on  the 
earth  have  our  hearts  cried  out  in  the  words  of  Thy 
Poet-King :  “Oh,  that  the  Salvation  of  Israel  were  come 
out  of  Zion !  when  the  Lord  bringeth  back  the  Captivity 
of  His  People,  Jacob  shall  rejoice,  and  Israel  shall  be 
glad!  O  send  out  Thy  light  and  Thy  truth:  let  them 
lead  me:  let  them  bring  me  unto  Thy  PIoly  Hill,  and 
to  Thy  Tabernacles/’ 

Now  we  the  Risen  Saints  can  see: 

“His  Foundation  is  in  the  Holy  Mountain.” 

“The  Lord  loveth  the  Gates  of  Zion  more  than  all  the 
dwellings  of  Jacob.” 

“Glorious  things  are  spoken  of  thee,  O  City  of  God.” 

Now  we  can  “walk  about  Zion — go  round  about  her, 
and  behold  and  number  her  towers.”  Yea,  Brothers, 
“Mark  well  her  bulwarks,  consider  the  exceeding  beauty 
of  her  palaces.  The  City  of  The  Lord  of  Hosts,  The 
City  of  Our  God,  God  will  establish  it  forever.” 

O  City  of  Laughter  and  Light !  O  City  of  Joy  and 
Rejoicing!  O  City  of  Love  and  Peace — where  no  care 
nor  fretting  for  the  tomorrow  need  ever  be !  O  City  of 


THAT  JEW! 


139 


Plenty,  where  hunger  of  mouth,  nor  hunger  of  heart 
may  never  be !  O  City  of  Music  and  Rapturous  Song, 
where  melodious  voice  and  tone  of  melody  will  never  be 
silent — but  ever,  ever,  rippling  on  without  the  shadow  of 
a  care,  nor  fretting,  nor  discord,  nor  censorious  voice, 
tone  or  accent;  where  working  hand  is  ever  inspired  by 
the  melody  of  happy  hearts,  some  of  whom  can  never  be 
still  from  praising;  for  when  one  waxeth  silent  another 
is  ever  ready  by  finger  or  lip  to  continue  the  beauty 
of  melody  in  the  spirit  of  rejoicing. 

O  City  Beloved  of  the  World!  To  thee  from  every 
zone  bring  willing  hearts  their  choicest  treasures.  To 
beautify  thy  palaces,  the  rarest  and  costliest  of  stones  are 
brought  from  every  mine  and  quarry  of  the  world.  Nat¬ 
ural  curiosities  from  every  land  are  brought  to  beautify 
thy  dwellings,  thy  palaces,  thy  parks,  thy  streets,  thy 
gardens.  Ah !  There  is  no  rare  tree,  or  bush,  or  flower 
of  any  clime,  arctic,  tropical,  semi-tropical,  or  moderate, 
which  is  not  brought  to  beautify  thy  parks,  thy  gardens 
and  thy  chambers.  Without  money,  without  price  is  the 
gift  given;  brought  to  thy  feet  without  thy  desire,  thy 
asking  or  thy  wishing;  gifts  that  required  time,  treasure, 
labor  and  flowers  will  bud  and  blossom,  and  bring  forth 
labor  and  anxiety,  to  make  thee  beautiful,  O  my  beloved 
City ! 

O  City  of  Superb  Atmosphere,  where  never  lurks  for 
an  instant  aught  that  would  bring  spite,  nor  blight,  nor 
blemish,  nor  tinge  of  sickness  to  the  most  helpless  babe 

born  of  the  children  of  Adam! 

O  City  with  an  atmosphere  wherein  all  tropical 
fruit  and  flowers  will  bud  and  blossom,  and  bring  forth 
to  perfection — and  yet  where  the  sun  will  never  distress 
with  its  heat,  nor  wither  with  its  fierceness.  For  the 


140 


THAT  JEW ! 


glory  of  the  sometimes  visible  New  Jerusalem  stretches 
above  the  entire  length  and  breadth  of  Immanuel’s  Land 
— The  Dwelling  Place  of  Jehovah  Christ  and  His 
Risen  Saints,  therefore  the  wind  bloweth  not  in  its 
fierceness ;  the  storms  of  rain,  or  snow,  or  sleet  are  never 
disagreeable,  and  never  break  the  tenderest  bud  or  twig 
in  the  City  of  Our  Love.  The  seasons  are  equable — 
neither  heat  nor  cold  are  too  pronounced,  but  they  are 
veritable  blessings  in  every  aspect  and  every  change  of  the 
coming  and  the  going  of  the  year. 

O  City  of  Our  Love !  Thou  shalt  abide  forever — shall 
never  know  of  a  change,  and  thou  shalt  ever  be — 

The  City  of  The  Great  King! 


. 

' 


.  • 


' 


* 


' . 


